Viktar Aliaksandravich Vabishchevich ( be, Віктар Аляксандравіч Вабішчэвіч; born March 22, 1989) is a Belarusian swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events. He posted a Belarusian record time of 28.03 seconds in the prelims of the
men's 50 m breaststroke at the
2012 European Aquatics Championships
The 2012 European Aquatics Championships were held from 14 to 27 May 2012 in Debrecen, Hungary and Eindhoven, Netherlands. The 2012 European Swimming Championships were to take place in Antwerp, Belgium, but were reallocated to the City of Debrec ...
in
Debrecen, Hungary
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. He also won a bronze medal in the same event at the
2007 European Junior Swimming Championships
The 2007 European Junior Swimming Championships were held from July 18 to July 22, 2007 in Antwerp, Belgium.
Medal table
Medal summary Boy's events
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, 50 m freestyle
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, 100 m freestyle
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, 200 m freestyle
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, 400 m frees ...
in
Antwerp, Belgium, clocking at 28.62 seconds.
Vabishchevich competed for
Belarus
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in two swimming events at the
2008 Summer Olympics in
Beijing
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. Leading up to the Games, he won the 100 m breaststroke race with a scintillating 1:02.19 to dip beneath a FINA B-cut (1:03.72) at the Belarus Open Championships in his native
Brest
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. In the
100 m breaststroke, Vabishchevich wound up last and forty-ninth overall to round out the field in heat five with 1:03.29, failing to advance to the semifinals. Vabishchevich also participated in the
4 × 100 m medley relay, along with his teammates
Pavel Sankovich
Pavel Paulavich Sankovich ( be, Павел Паўлавіч Санковіч; born 29 June 1990) is a Belarusian swimmer, who specialized in sprint backstroke and butterfly events. He represented his native Belarus in three editions of the Olympi ...
,
Yauheni Lazuka
Yauheni Lazuka or Yevgeniy Lazuka (, born 13 April 1989 in Salihorsk
Salihorsk ( be, Саліго́рск ; russian: Солиго́рск , Soligorsk) is a city in Belarus. In 2018 its population was 106,627.
History
The city is one of the coun ...
, and 2004 Olympian
Stanislau Neviarouski. Swimming the breaststroke leg, Vabishchevich recorded a split in 1:01.89, but the Belarusian team had to settle for last place with a final time of 3:39.39.
References
External links
NBC 2008 Olympics profile
1989 births
Living people
Belarusian male swimmers
Olympic swimmers for Belarus
Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Male breaststroke swimmers
Sportspeople from Brest, Belarus
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