Andrey Korneyev (russian: Андрей Корнеев; 10 January 1974 – 2 May 2014) was a

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from

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, who won the bronze medal in the men's 200 m breaststroke event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in

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. A year earlier he captured the gold medal in the same event at the 1995 European Championships in

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. Korneyev died on 2 May 2014 of

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at the age of 40.

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