Andrey Strokin is a

paralympic swimmer Para swimming is an adaptation of the sport of swimming for athletes with disabilities. Para swimmers compete at the Summer Paralympic Games and at other sports competitions throughout the world. The sport is governed by the International Para ...

from

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competing mainly in category S13 events.

Career

Andrey has competed in three Paralympics in

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2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

and

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winning multiple medals each time. In 2000 he finished in fourth in the freestyle and set a games record in winning the freestyle and a world record in winning the freestyle. In the 2004 games he finished third in the 100m butterfly, won the 100m breaststroke in a dead heat and sop sharing the medal with Germany's Daniel Clausner, he also retained the gold in the 50m freestyle and 100m freestyle where he broke the games record. At the 2008 games he finished seventh in the 100m freestyle and won bronze in both the 100m butterfly and 50m freestyle where he swam quicker than the games record had been before the heats.

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* Paralympic swimmers for Russia Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Paralympics Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Paralympics Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Paralympic gold medalists for Russia Paralympic bronze medalists for Russia Russian male butterfly swimmers Living people Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics S13-classified para swimmers Year of birth missing (living people) Paralympic medalists in swimming Russian male freestyle swimmers 20th-century Russian people 21st-century Russian people {{Russia-Paralympic-medalist-stub