Serhiy Mykolaiovych Advena ( uk, Сергій Миколайович Адвена; born August 4, 1984) is a Ukrainian former swimmer who specializes in the freestyle and butterfly swimming styles. He is a two-time Olympian (2004 and 2008), and a multiple-time Ukrainian record holder in both 100 and 200 m butterfly. He also helped out the Ukrainian team to upset their American rivals and claim the medley relay title (3:38.49) at the

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in Izmir, Turkey. Advena made his Olympic debut in

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, competing in two swimming events. He also teamed up with Maksym Kokosha, Dmytro Vereitinov, and Olympic stalwart

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in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay. Swimming the anchor leg, Advena recorded a fastest split of 1:50.90, and the Ukrainian team went to finish the preliminary heats in twelfth overall, with a final time of 7:24.13. In the 200 m butterfly, Advena failed to qualify for the final, as he finished twelfth overall in his semifinal run in 1:58.11. His time was just two hundredths of a second (0.02s) ahead of Japan's

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, who beat him for the gold medal at the

2003 Summer Universiade The 2003 Summer Universiade, also known as the XXII Summer Universiade, took place in Daegu, South Korea. Emblem * The alphabet letter "U" and five stars, which is FISU's emblem, make up the basis of the emblem for the Daegu Universiade. * It sym ...

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. Four years after competing in his first Olympics, Advena qualified for his second Ukrainian team, as a 24-year-old, at the

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. He finished sixth in the 200 m butterfly from the

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in Eindhoven, Netherlands, clearing a FINA A-standard entry time of 1:57.04. On the second day of the Games, Advena challenged seven other swimmers in heat five of the 200 m freestyle, including South Africa's

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and Israel's

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. He cruised to third place by a single tenth margin from Townsend in a Ukrainian record time of 1:48.18, but missed the semifinals by a 0.37-second deficit, as he placed twenty-third overall in the preliminaries. In the 200 m butterfly, Advena posted a time of 1:56.24 to obtain a fourteenth seed on the morning prelims. Then, he repeated his feat from Athens with a fifteenth-place time of 1:56.64 in the semifinals.

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NBC 2008 Olympics profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Advena, Serhiy 1984 births Living people Ukrainian male swimmers Olympic swimmers for Ukraine Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Ukrainian male freestyle swimmers Male butterfly swimmers Sportspeople from Kyiv Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) Universiade medalists in swimming FISU World University Games gold medalists for Ukraine Universiade silver medalists for Ukraine Universiade bronze medalists for Ukraine