birth_place weight height birth_date article_title strokes name
shymkent , kazakh ssr 90 kg lb 0 on 1.95 0 on 8 august 1976 pavel sidorov
 freestyle , backstroke pavel sidorov
pavel sidorov

pavel sidorov -lrb- ; born august 8 , 1976 in shymkent -rrb- is a retired kazakhstani swimmer , who specialized in sprint freestyle and backstroke events .
sidorov competed for kazakhstan in two swimming events at the 2000 summer olympics in sydney .
he eclipsed a fina b-cut of 58.69 -lrb- 100 m backstroke -rrb- from the kazakhstan open championships in almaty .
on the first day of the games , sidorov placed twenty-first for the kazakhstan team in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay .
teaming with sergey borisenko , andrey kvassov , and igor sitnikov in heat three , sidorov swam a third leg and recorded a split of 52.14 , but the kazakhs settled only for last place in a final time of 3:28.90 .
the following day , in the 100 m backstroke , sidorov placed fifty-second on the morning prelims .
swimming in heat one , he edged out bolivia 's mauricio prudencio on the final length to grab a fourth seed by 0.13 seconds in a time of 1:01.02 .
