Rustam Ramizovich Khudiyev ( kk, Рустам Рамизович Худиев, ''Rustam Ramizovich Hudiev''; born January 6, 1985 in

Pavlodar Pavlodar ( ; ) is a city in northeastern Kazakhstan and the capital of Pavlodar Region. It is located 450 km northeast of the national capital Astana and 405 km southeast of the Russian city of Omsk along the Irtysh River. , the cit ...

Kazakh SSR ; kk, Қазақ Советтік Социалистік Республикасы) *1991: Republic of Kazakhstan (russian: Республика Казахстан; kk, Қазақстан Республикасы) , linking_name = the ...

, USSR) is an Olympic

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...

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from

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...

. He swam for Kazakhstan at the

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

2008 Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Nati ...

.Khudiyev's entry
from www.sports-reference.com; retrieved 2009-07-23. His best result was finishing in 41st place in the men's 100m butterfly event in at the 2004 Games. He also swam for Kazakhstan at the 2007 World Championships.

References

1985 births Living people Kazakhstani male butterfly swimmers Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic swimmers of Kazakhstan People from Pavlodar Asian Games medalists in swimming Swimmers at the 2006 Asian Games Swimmers at the 2010 Asian Games Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games Asian Games bronze medalists for Kazakhstan {{Kazakhstan-swimming-bio-stub