Andrei Mihailov

Andrei Mihailov (born October 31, 1980) is a Moldovan former swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events.^[1] He is a two-time Olympian (2000 and 2004) and a member of the Moldova Swimming Team.

Andrei Mihailov

Personal information
Full name	Andrei Mihailov
National team	Moldova
Born	(1980-10-31) 31 October 1980 (age 44) Tiraspol, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	82 kg (181 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Backstroke
Club	Moldova Swimming Team

Mihailov's Olympic debut came at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Swimming in heat one of the men's 200 m backstroke, he edged out Bulgaria's Ivan Angelov to take a second spot and thirty-eighth overall by 0.63 of a second in 2:06.67.^[2]

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Mihailov qualified again for the 200 m backstroke. He cleared a FINA B-standard entry time of 2:06.12 from the Russian Open Championships in Moscow.^[3] Swimming in the same heat as Sydney, he raced again to second place by 0.68 of a second behind Finland's Matti Mäki in 2:06.97. Mihailov failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-fourth overall in the preliminaries.^[4][5]