Andrei Cecan

Andrei Cecan

Personal information
Full name	Andrei Cecan
National team	Moldova
Born	(1976-06-20) 20 June 1976 (age 48) Chişinău, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	78 kg (172 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle
Club	Dinamo Chişinău

Andrei Cecan (born June 20, 1976) is a Moldovan former swimmer, who specialized in middle-distance freestyle events.^[1] He is a single-time Olympian (2000), a sixth-place finalist at the 1999 Summer Universiade, and a member of Dinamo Chişinău.

Cecan made his major international debut at the 1998 FINA World Championships in Perth, Australia. In the 400 m freestyle, he powered home with a fifteenth-place effort in the B-Final in a time of 3:56.68, trailing Hungary's Béla Szabados by two hundredths of a second (0.02).^[2]

Cecan competed in the men's 200 m freestyle at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He posted a FINA B-time of 1:52.12 from the Summer Universiade in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.^[3][4] He challenged seven other swimmers in heat four, including Ukraine's Rostyslav Svanidze, a top 16 finalist in Atlanta four years earlier. Cecan raced to sixth place by three-tenths of a second (0.30) behind Kyrgyzstan's Dmitri Kuzmin in a time of 1:53.23. Cecan failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-first overall in the prelims.^[5]

References

1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Andrei Cecan". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 27 May 2013.
2. "1998 FINA World Championships (Perth, Australia): Men's 400m Freestyle Final B" (PDF). USA Swimming. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
3. "Swimming – Men's 200m Freestyle Startlist (Heat 4)" (PDF). Sydney 2000. Omega Timing. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
4. "1999 World University Games (Palma de Mallorca, Spain): Men's 200m Freestyle Prelims". USA Swimming. 4 July 1999. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
5. "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Men's 200m Freestyle Heat 4" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 125. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 August 2011. Retrieved 23 April 2013.