Andrey Korneyev
Appearance
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Full name | Андрей Корнеев | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Russia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Omsk, Russian SFSR | 10 January 1974||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 2 May 2014 Moscow, Russian Federation | (aged 40)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 80 kg (180 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Breaststroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Central Sport Klub Army, Moscow-Omsk | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Andrey Korneyev (Russian: Андрей Корнеев; 10 January 1974 – 2 May 2014) was a breaststroke swimmer from Russia, who won the bronze medal in the men's 200 m breaststroke event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. A year earlier he captured the gold medal in the same event at the 1995 European Championships in Vienna, Austria.
Korneyev died on 2 May 2014 of cancer in Moscow at the age of 40.[1]
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- 1974 births
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- Deaths from cancer in Russia
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- Olympic swimmers of Russia
- Olympic bronze medalists for Russia
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- Former world record holders in swimming
- Olympic bronze medalists in swimming
- Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
- European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- People from Omsk
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Russian swimming biography stubs