Aleksey Anatolyevich Zinovyev (also Alexey Zinovyev, ; born February 15, 1990) is a Russian swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events. He set a meet record (2:14.78) to claim the gold medal in the 200 m breaststroke at the

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, and was eventually selected to the Russian swimming team at the

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on that same year. Zinovyev competed as a lone Russian swimmer in the men's 200 m breaststroke at the

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. One year earlier, he finished with a second-place time in 2:12.48 to dip beneath the FINA A-cut and assure a direct selection to the Russian Olympic team at the European Junior Championships in

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. Swimming in heat five, Zinovyev could not keep his pace from a vastly more sophisticated field to accept the last spot instead in 2:16.40, almost four seconds short of his entry time. Zinovyev failed to advance to the semifinals, as he placed forty-fifth overall in the prelims.

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NBC Olympics Profile
1990 births Living people Olympic swimmers for Russia Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Russian male breaststroke swimmers Swimmers from Moscow 21st-century Russian sportsmen {{Russia-swimming-bio-stub