Yauhen Mikalaevich Tsurkin ( be, Яўген Мікалаевіч Цуркін;
Łacinka: Jaŭhien Mikałajevič Curkin; born 9 November 1990) is a Belarusian
swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle and butterfly events.
Career
He won a bronze medal in the
50 m butterfly 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
Debrecen ( , is Hungary's second-largest city, after Budapest, the regional centre of the Northern Great Plain region and the seat of Hajdú-Bihar County. A city with county rights, it was the largest Hungarian city in the 18th century and i ...
, in a new Belarusian record time of 23.37 seconds.
Tsurkin qualified for the
men's 100 m freestyle, as a member of the Belarusian swimming team, at the
2012 Summer Olympics in
London
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, by attaining a B-standard entry time of 49.62 seconds at the European Championships. He challenged seven other swimmers in the fourth heat, including British-born Paraguayan swimmer
Benjamin Hockin
Benjamin Hockin Brusquetti (born 27 September 1986) is an Olympic freestyle swimmer, who has swum international for both Great Britain and Paraguay (his father is British, his mother is Paraguayan).
Hockin represented Great Britain at the 2008 ...
. Tsurkin edged out sixth-place finisher
Gabriel Melconian Alvez of Uruguay by fifteen hundredths of a second (0.15), slower than his qualifying time of 50.53 seconds. Tsurkin failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-fourth out of 60 swimmers in the preliminaries.
At the
2012 European Short Course Swimming Championships in
Chartres, France, Tsurkin lowered his national record time to 22.73 seconds, but was narrowly beaten by France's
Frédérick Bousquet
Frédérick Bousquet (, born 8 April 1981 in Perpignan) is a retired freestyle and butterfly swimmer from France. He was the holder of the world record in the 50 m freestyle in a time of 20.94 in long course, set on 26 April 2009 at the fin ...
for top seeding in the semifinals of the men's 50 m butterfly.
He won the 50 m butterfly at the
2014 European Championships.
At the
2016 Summer Olympics, he competed in the 50 m butterfly and the 100 m freestyle, but did not progress from the heats in either event.
His wife,
Aliaksandra Herasimenia
Aliaksandra Viktarauna Herasimenia ( be, Аляксандра Віктараўна Герасіменя russian: Алекса́ндра Ви́кторовна Герасиме́ня; Łacinka: Aliaksandra Viktaraŭna Hierasimienia / Aleksandra G ...
, won a bronze medal in the 50 m freestyle in Rio.
References
External links
NBC Olympics Profile
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1990 births
Living people
Belarusian male swimmers
Olympic swimmers for Belarus
Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Male butterfly swimmers
Belarusian male freestyle swimmers
Sportspeople from Gomel
European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Universiade medalists in swimming
FISU World University Games gold medalists for Belarus
Universiade silver medalists for Belarus
Universiade bronze medalists for Belarus
Medalists at the 2013 Summer Universiade
Medalists at the 2015 Summer Universiade
Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Olympics