Yury Yurievich Suvorau ( be, Юрый Юр'евіч Сувораў; born March 29, 1991, in
Vitebsk
Vitebsk or Viciebsk (russian: Витебск, ; be, Ві́цебск, ; , ''Vitebsk'', lt, Vitebskas, pl, Witebsk), is a city in Belarus. The capital of the Vitebsk Region, it has 366,299 inhabitants, making it the country's fourth-largest ci ...
) is a Belarusian swimmer, who specialized in individual medley events.
Suvorau qualified for the
men's 400 m individual medley, as a member of the Belarusian swimming team, at the
2012 Summer Olympics
The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...
in
London
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, by attaining a B-standard entry time of 4:23.35. Suvorau challenged seven other swimmers in the second heat, including two-time Olympian
Raphaël Stacchiotti
Raphaël Stacchiotti (born 9 March 1992 in Luxembourg City) is a Luxembourgish swimmer, who specialized in the freestyle and individual medley events. He is a four-time Olympian (2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020), a multiple-time Luxembourgian record h ...
of Luxembourg. He finished the race in a third-place tie with Portugal's
Diogo Carvalho, in a new Belarusian record time of 4:23.06. Suvorau, however, failed to advance into the final, as he placed twenty-sixth out of 37 swimmers in the preliminary heats.
References
External links
NBC Olympics Profile
1991 births
Living people
Belarusian male swimmers
Olympic swimmers for Belarus
Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Male medley swimmers
Sportspeople from Vitebsk
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