Victor Rogut

Victor Rogut
Personal information
Full name Victor Rogut
National team  Moldova
Born (1979-02-28) 28 February 1979
Chişinău, Moldavian SSR
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight 62 kg (137 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
Club Moldova Swimming Team

Victor Rogut (born February 28, 1979) is a Moldovan former swimmer, who specialized in long-distance freestyle events.[1] He is a two-time Olympian (2000 and 2004) and a member of the Moldova Swimming Team.

Rogut made his official debut at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he competed in the 400 m freestyle. Swimming in heat two, he edged out Turkey's Aytekin Mindan to claim a sixth spot and thirty-eighth overall by four hundredths of a second (0.04) in 4:01.42.[2][3]

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Rogut qualified again for the 400 m freestyle, by achieving a FINA B-standard of 4:01.05 from the Russian Open Championships in Moscow.[4] He challenged seven other swimmers in heat two, including his former rival Mindan and Bulgaria's Petar Stoychev, who later emerged as a top favorite in open water. Rogut pulled off another sixth-place finish in the same heat from four years ago in 4:01.68, just 0.24 of a second off his entry time. Rogut failed to reach the top 8 final, as he placed thirty-fifth overall in the preliminaries.[5][6]

References

  1. ↑ "Victor Rogut". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 3 May 2013.
  2. ↑ "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Men's 400m Freestyle Heat 2" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 132. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
  3. ↑ "Dolan breaks own world mark in 400 IM". Canoe.ca. 17 September 2000. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
  4. ↑ "Swimming – Men's 400m Freestyle Startlist (Heat 2)" (PDF). Athens 2004. Omega Timing. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
  5. ↑ Thomas, Stephen (14 August 2004). "Men's 400 Freestyle Prelims: Hackett Edges Thorpe, Qualifies First for Final; Jensen and Keller Easily Through". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 27 March 2013.
  6. ↑ "Men's 400m Freestyle Heat 2". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 14 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
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