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Pavel Sidorov ( kk, Павел Сидоров; born August 8, 1976) is a Kazakh former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle and backstroke events. Sidorov competed for
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in two swimming events at the
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in
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. He eclipsed a
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B-cut of 58.69 (100 m backstroke) from the Kazakhstan Open Championships in
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. On the first day of the Games, Sidorov placed twenty-first for the Kazakhstan team in the 4×100 m freestyle relay. Teaming with Sergey Borisenko, Andrey Kvassov, and Igor Sitnikov in heat three, Sidorov swam a third leg and recorded a split of 52.14, but the Kazakhs settled only for last place in a final time of 3:28.90. The following day, in the
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, Sidorov placed fifty-second on the morning prelims. Swimming in heat one, he edged out Bolivia's Mauricio Prudencio on the final length to grab a fourth seed by 0.13 seconds in a time of 1:01.02.


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1976 births Living people Kazakhstani male backstroke swimmers Olympic swimmers for Kazakhstan Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Kazakhstani male freestyle swimmers Sportspeople from Shymkent Swimmers at the 1998 Asian Games Asian Games medalists in swimming Asian Games bronze medalists for Kazakhstan Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games 20th-century Kazakhstani people 21st-century Kazakhstani people {{Kazakhstan-swimming-bio-stub