Ravil Nachaev is an Uzbek former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle and butterfly events.
10 Facts About Ravil Nachaev
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Ravil Nachaev is a three-time Olympian, and a gold medalist in the 50 m freestyle at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea.
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Ravil Nachaev failed to reach the top 16 final in any of his individual events, finishing forty-fifth in the 50 m freestyle, and forty-eighth in the 100 m butterfly.
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Ravil Nachaev placed seventeenth, as a member of the Uzbekistan team, in the freestyle relay.
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At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Ravil Nachaev competed as a member of the Uzbekistan team in the freestyle relay, along with Oleg Tsvetkovskiy, Petr Vasiliev, and Oleg Pukhnatiy.
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Ravil Nachaev later emerged as Uzbekistan's top swimmer, when he shared the gold with South Korea's Kim Min-suk in the 50 m freestyle, a matching time of 22.86 seconds, at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan.
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Ravil Nachaev shortened his program at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, when he swam only for the third time in the 50 m freestyle.
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Ravil Nachaev achieved a FINA B-standard of 23.49 from the Kazakhstan Open Championships in Almaty.
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Ravil Nachaev registered a time of 23.23 to lead the fifth heat again, since he had previously done before in Sydney four years earlier.
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Ravil Nachaev failed to reach the semifinals for his third and final Olympic stint, placing thirty-sixth in the preliminaries.