Dragoș Agache (; born March 8, 1984, in

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) is a Romanian swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events. He set a new Romanian record of 27.47 to collect a silver medal in the 50 m breaststroke at the

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. Agache qualified for the men's 100 m breaststroke at the

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in London, by clearing a FINA B-cut of 1:01.19 from the World Championships in Shanghai, China. He challenged seven other swimmers on the third heat, including two-time Olympians

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of Estonia and Carlos Almeida of Portugal. He rounded out the field to last place by less than 0.14 of a second behind Poland's

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and Israel's

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in 1:02.93. Agache failed to advance into the semifinals, as he shared a thirty-seventh place tie with four-time Olympian Malick Fall of Senegal on the first day of preliminaries. Agache is a former member of the swimming team for the

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, and a graduate of management information systems at the University of Iowa in

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(2008).

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Player Bio – Iowa Hawkeyes
1984 births Living people Romanian male breaststroke swimmers Olympic swimmers for Romania Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Brăila European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Iowa Hawkeyes men's swimmers Expatriate swimmers in the United States 20th-century Romanian sportspeople 21st-century Romanian sportsmen {{Romania-swimming-bio-stub