Oleg Rabota ( kk, Олег Работа; born June 12, 1990) is a Kazakh swimmer, who specialized in middle-distance freestyle and backstroke events. He represented his nation Kazakhstan at the

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, and has won a silver medal in the 200 m freestyle at the

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. Rabota also served as a member of the Southern Illinois Salukis swimming and diving team under head coach Rick Walker, while pursuing his sports management studies at Southern Illinois University in

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. Rabota competed for the Kazakh squad in two swimming events at the

in Beijing. He posted a time of 2:03.75 to set himself up as the fourth seed headed into the 200 m backstroke final of the Olympic test event in Beijing, and then snatched the 400 m freestyle title with a 3:56.98 at the Kazakhstan Open Championships three months later in

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; both of these marks dipped beneath the FINA B-cut. In the

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, Rabota fought off with Argentina's Juan Martín Pereyra for the fourth spot throughout the race, but relegated to fifth and thirty-sixth overall to round out the opening heat in 4:02.16. Four days later, in the 200 m backstroke, Rabota raced to second on the same heat by 0.78 of a second behind leader

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of the Cayman Islands in 2:01.95, but his thirty-third place time in the prelims would not be enough to put him through to the semifinals.

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Profile – Kazakhstan Swimming Federation
1990 births Living people Kazakhstani male backstroke swimmers Olympic swimmers for Kazakhstan Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2006 Asian Games Swimmers at the 2010 Asian Games Kazakhstani male freestyle swimmers Sportspeople from Almaty Southern Illinois Salukis men's swimmers Asian Games competitors for Kazakhstan 21st-century Kazakhstani people {{Kazakhstan-swimming-bio-stub