Vadim Alekseyev ( he, ודים אלכסייב, russian: Вадим Алексеев ; born April 11, 1970) is a retired Olympic

breaststroke Breaststroke is a swimming style in which the swimmer is on their chest and the torso does not rotate. It is the most popular recreational style due to the swimmer's head being out of the water a large portion of the time, and that it can be s ...

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who competed for first the

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, then Israel. Alexeev was born in

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

. He is Jewish, and immigrated to Israel in 1992. He speaks Russian.

Career

Alekseyev held Soviet and Israeli records in the 1990s. He won the 100-meter and 200-meter breaststroke races at the 1986 European Junior Championships. At the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, he took sixth in the 200-meter breaststroke with a time of 2:16.7. In 1989 he set the Soviet record in the 100-meter breaststroke (1:02.11); it was the third-fastest time in the world that year. That year he was one of the two fastest swimmers in Europe. In 1990, he won a silver medal at the

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in the 100-meter breastroke. At the 1994 World Championship, he set the Israeli record in the 200-meter breaststroke (2:15.47). In 1995, he set the Israeli record in the 100-meter breaststroke (1:02.52). At the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, he swam for Israel. There, he swam the four-man 4x100 meter medley with

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, Eitan Urbach, and

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. The team reached the final, taking eighth place. At the 2008 Olympics in Beijing,

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beat Alekseyev's prior Israeli record in the men's 100-meter breaststroke by one-tenth of a second (at 1:02.42).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Alekseyev, Vadim 1970 births Living people Soviet male breaststroke swimmers Kazakhstani male breaststroke swimmers Israeli male breaststroke swimmers Israeli people of Kazakhstani-Jewish descent Olympic swimmers of the Soviet Union Olympic swimmers of Israel Swimmers at the 1988 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Jewish swimmers Soviet Jews Kazakhstani Jews Kazakhstani emigrants to Israel Israeli Jews Sportspeople from Almaty Competitors at the 1990 Goodwill Games

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