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Yevgeny Sadovyi
The Olympic Games, or Olympics, is an international multi-sport event taking place every four years which comprises of summer and winter games. Though the first ancient games were held in 776 B.C, the modern games started from 1896.The unity of the 5 continents is shown on the Olympic flag by five colorful intertwined rings of red, blue, green, yellow, and black, created by Baron Pierre de Coubertin to represent atleast one color of the participating country’s national flag.
Yevgeny Sadovyi was born on 19 January, 1973, in Volzky, Sadovyi. He is a former Russian swimmer who won three gold medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics at Barcelona and was subsequently chosen by Swimming World magazine as the Male World Swimmer of the Year. In 1981 his family moved to Volgograd, and two years later the young Yevgenyi started to train for international competitions.
His Olympic medal record Men’s Swimming Gold 1992 Barcelona 200 m Freestyle, Gold 1992 Barcelona 400 m Freestyle, Gold 1992 Barcelona 4 by 200 m Freestyle relay In 1991 at the European Championship in Athens he was gold medallist in the 400m and 4 by 200m relay, both freestyle. In 1992 at Barcelona, the 19 year old Sadovyi revealed as the strongest swimmer of the Olympic games, winning three gold medals and setting two world records in the 400m freestyle and 4 by 200m freestyle really for his team. He missed the Giorgio Lamberti's world record in the 200m freestyle race by a 0.01 second, but cut 1.47 seconds off Kieren Perkins' record in the 400m, beating the same Australian swimmer.
In 1993 Sadovyi was second in the 200m freestyle at the European Championship in Sheffield, plus two other golds in freestyle relays. He retired in September, 1996.
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