Andrey Minakov
Andrey Dmitriyevich Minakov (Russian: Андрей Дмитриевич Минаков; born 17 March 2002) is a Russian swimmer and Olympian.[2] He is the current world junior record holder in the 50 metre butterfly, both short course and long course, and a former world junior record holder in the long course 100 metre freestyle.[3][4][5] He is the Russian record holder in the long course 100 metre butterfly.[6] At the 2019 World Aquatics Championships, he won silver medals in the 100 metre butterfly and 4×100 metre freestyle relay, and a bronze medal in the 4×100 metre medley relay.[7][8] In 2021, at the 2020 Summer Olympics, he placed 4th in the 100 metre butterfly, 4th in the 4×100 metre medley relay, 7th in the 4×100 metre freestyle relay, and 10th in the 100 metre freestyle.[9] He also won two gold medals, one silver medal, and three bronze medals at the 2021 World Short Course Championships.[10] In 2022, he won the NCAA title in the 100 yard butterfly.[11]
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Full name | Andrey Dmitriyevich Minakov | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Early life and education
Minakov was raised in Saint Petersburg, Russia, though later in his youth he began splitting his time between Russia and California, training in the United States during the summer months each year.[12]
Collegiately, Minakov chose to attend Stanford University where he started competing as part of the Stanford Cardinal swim team in the fall of 2021.[1] The week Minakov announced his commitment to swimming for Stanford, the week of 3 December 2019, he ranked number one for "The Week That Was" honour from Swimming World, narrowly winning the top spot over number two, which was Caeleb Dressel getting engaged to Meghan Haila.[13]
Swimming career
2018 Summer Youth Olympics
2018 Summer Youth Olympics | ||
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![]() | 50 m butterfly | 23.62 |
![]() | 100 m butterfly | 51.12 (NR) |
![]() | 100 m freestyle | 49.23 |
![]() | 4×100 m mixed freestyle | 3:28.50 |
![]() | 4×100 m freestyle | 3:18.11 |
![]() | 4×100 m medley | 3:35.17 (WJ) |
![]() | 4×100 m mixed medley | 3:51.46 |
When he was 16 years old, Minakov competed at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina, winning six gold medals and one silver medal.[12] Minakov set a new national record of 51.12 seconds in the 100 metre butterfly and won the gold medal, touching ahead of silver medalist in the event Kristóf Milák of Hungary.[14] In addition to the national record, Minakov helped set a new world junior record of 3:35.17 in the final of the 4×100 metre medley relay, swimming the butterfly leg of the relay and splitting a time of 51.14 seconds.[15] He won a gold medal in the 4×100 metre mixed freestyle relay in 3:28.50, splitting a 49.60 for the second leg of the relay in the final.[16] In the 4×100 metre freestyle relay Minakov anchored the relay in 48.93 seconds, contributing to the final time of 3:18.11 with Kliment Kolesnikov, Daniil Markov, and Vladislav Gerasimenko.[17][18]
For the 50 metre butterfly, Minakov won the gold medal with a time of 23.62 seconds, finishing 0.01 seconds ahead of Daniil Markov and Tomoe Hvas who tied for the silver medal.[16] In the final of the 100 metre freestyle Minakov won the gold medal, finishing less than two tenths of a second ahead of the silver and bronze medalists in the event with a time of 49.23 seconds.[16][19] He split a 51.63 for the butterfly leg of the 4×100 metre mixed medley relay to help earn the silver medal in a time of 3:51.46 with Polina Egorova (backstroke), Anastasia Makarova (breaststroke), and Kliment Kolesnikov (freestyle).[16]
2019 World Championships
In July 2019 at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships in Gwangju, South Korea, Minakov won two silver medals and one bronze medal.[8] In the 100 metre butterfly, Minakov set a new national record for Russia in the semifinals with a time 50.94, advanced to the final ranked second overall, and became the first Russian in history to swim the race in less than 51 seconds.[20] The following day, during the final of the 100 metre butterfly, Minakov won the silver medal in a national record time of 50.83 seconds, touching the wall after first place finisher Caeleb Dressel of the United States and before third place finisher Chad le Clos of South Africa.[8][6] Minakov also won a silver medal in the 4×100 metre freestyle relay, swimming in the prelims heats, and helped win a bronze medal and set a new national record in the 4×100 metre medley relay at 3:28.81 with his relay teammates Evgeny Rylov (backstroke), Kirill Prigoda (breaststroke), and Vladimir Morozov (freestyle), splitting a 50.54 for the butterfly leg of the relay.[8]
2019 World Junior Championships
As part of the 4×100 metre medley relay at the 2019 World Junior Championships in Budapest, Hungary in August 2019, Minakov helped win the gold medal and break the world junior record he helped set in the event in 2018, swimming the butterfly leg of the relay in 50.93 seconds and contributing to the new record time of 3:33.19.[21] He also won a gold medal in the 100 metre freestyle with a 48.73, a silver medal in the 50 metre butterfly with a 23.39, a gold medal in the 100 metre butterfly in 51.25 seconds, a silver medal in the 4×100 metre freestyle relay at 3:16.26, a silver medal in the 4×100 metre mixed freestyle relay with a 3:27.72, and contributed to winning the silver medal in the 4×100 metre mixed medley relay with a final time of 3:48.06.[22] For his accomplishments, Minakov was named as one of two "Swimmer of the Championships" competitors along with Lani Pallister of Australia.[23]
2020 Russian Championships
At the 2020 Russian National Championships held in Kazan in October and conducted in long course metres, Minakov swam a personal best time of 47.57 seconds in the 100 metre freestyle and set a new world junior record in the event, breaking the former record of 47.58 seconds set by Kyle Chalmers of Australia in 2016.[5] Earlier in the same meet, Minakov set a new world junior record in the semifinals of the 50 metre butterfly with a time of 23.05 seconds.[4] Later in the year, in December, at the Russian National Championships conducted in short course metres, Minakov established a new world junior record in the short course 50 metre butterfly with a time of 22.34 seconds.[3]
2020 European Championships
In the final of the 4×100 metre freestyle relay at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships, held at Danube Arena in Budapest, Hungary in May 2021, Minakov led-off the relay with a time of 48.18 seconds to help earn the gold medal in the event with a Championships record time of 3:10.41.[24] For the 100 metre freestyle, Minakov won the bronze medal with a time of 47.74 seconds, finishing 0.37 seconds after gold medalist and fellow Russian Kliment Kolesnikov and 0.29 seconds after silver medalist Alessandro Miressi of Italy.[25] Minakov won his third medal of the Championships in the 4×100 metre medley relay where he split a 47.41 for the freestyle leg of the relay in the final to contribute to the final time of 3:29.50 and help win the silver medal.[26]
2020 Summer Olympics
At the 2020 Summer Olympics that took place in Tokyo, Japan in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Minakov placed 4th in the 100 metre butterfly with a time of 50.88 seconds.[27] He also placed 4th swimming the butterfly leg of the 4×100 metre medley relay splitting a time of 50.31, 10th in the 100 metre freestyle where he swam a time of 48.03 seconds in the semifinals, and 7th in the 4×100 metre freestyle relay splitting a 47.71 for the lead-off leg of the relay.[9]
2021–2022 Collegiate season beginnings
Competing in his first collegiate season for Stanford University, Minakov improved his best time in the 50 yard freestyle by approximately six-tenths of a second on the first day of competition, 18 November, with a time of 19.13 seconds in the prelims at the 2021 North Carolina State Fall Invitational in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.[28] In the final of the 50 yard freestyle, Minakov tied for second-place with his time of 19.20 seconds.[29] The second day of competition, Minakov set a new personal best time in the 100 yard butterfly at 44.78 seconds, which won him first place.[30] The morning of the third day of competition, Minakov swam a personal best time of 42.49 seconds in the 100 yard freestyle in the prelims heats.[31] In the evening, Minoakov won the event, lowering his time in the race to 41.89 seconds.[32]
2021 World Short Course Championships
2021 World Championships | ||
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![]() | 4×100 m freestyle | 3:03.45 |
![]() | 4×50 m medley | 1:30.51 (CR) |
![]() | 4×50 m freestyle | 1:23.75 |
![]() | 4×50 m mixed freestyle | 1:28.97 |
![]() | 100 m butterfly | 49.21 |
![]() | 4×100 m medley | 3:20.65 |
Minakov was announced to the team Russia roster on 2 December for the 2021 World Short Course Championships in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.[33] On 16 December, the first day of competition, Minakov split a 45.94 for the 4×100 metre freestyle relay, helping achieve a time of 3:06.02 with prelims relay teammates Aleksandr Shchegolev, Vladimir Morozov, and Daniil Markov, and advance the relay to the final ranked first overall.[34][35] In the final of the event, Minakov contributed to the finals relay first-place finish in 3:03.45 with relay teammates Aleksandr Shchegolev, Kliment Kolesnikov, and Vladislav Grinev, and won a gold medal for his efforts in both the prelims and final.[36][37][38] The following day, Minakov ranked second in the prelims heats of the 100 metre butterfly, ahead of Youssef Ramadan of Egypt and behind Noè Ponti of Switzerland with his time of 49.60 seconds, and qualified for the semifinals later the same day.[39] He split a 21.04 for the lead-off leg of the 4×50 metre mixed freestyle relay, helping his prelims relay teammates qualify the relay for the final ranked first at 1:29.84.[40] In the evening, Minakov qualified for the final of the 100 metre butterfly ranking eighth with a 49.79.[41] Later in the same session, Minakov split a 20.95 for the second leg of 4×50 metre mixed freestyle relay, helping win the bronze medal in 1:28.97.[42]
On the third day of competition, Minakov swam a 49.21 in the 100 metre butterfly final to win the bronze medal.[43][44] Minakov substituted in for Daniil Markov on the finals relay in the 4×50 metre freestyle relay on day four, splitting a 21.14 for the lead-off leg to contribute to the final time of 1:23.75 and winning the silver medal.[45] In the final of the 4×50 metre medley relay on day five, Minakov split a 21.76 for the butterfly leg of the relay to help win the gold medal in a Championships record time of 1:30.51.[46][47] On the final day, day six of competition, Minakov split a 48.81 for the butterfly leg of the 4×100 metre medley relay, helping win the bronze medal in a time of 3:20.65.[48]
2022 Pac-12 Conference Championships
Heading into his first collegiate championships season, Minakov won the 100 yard butterfly, with a time of 46.40 seconds, and the 50 yard freestyle, with a 19.58, in dual meet in February 2022.[49] At the 2022 Pac-12 Conference Championships in early March 2022, and held at the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way, Washington, Minakov split a 19.49 for the butterfly leg of the 4×50 yard medley relay on the first day to help achieve a first-place finish in 1:22.74 and become the second-fastest swimmer in terms of 50 yard butterfly split times on relays in the NCAA, only after Joseph Schooling.[50][51] On day two, he swam a 19.24 in the prelims heats of the 50 yard freestyle to qualify for the final ranking second.[52] In the evening, he swam a personal best time of 19.08 seconds in the final to place second.[53] Minakov followed up his 19.08 with a 19.10 lead-off leg in the next event, the 4×50 yard freestyle relay, helping achieve a fourth-place finish in 1:16.74.[54] Day three of competition, he swam a time of 44.21 seconds in the prelims heats of the 100 yard butterfly to qualify for the final ranking first and set a new Championships record.[55] In the final, he set a new Pac-12 Conference record of 43.90 seconds to win the event, and later in the finals session he helped achieve a win in the 4×100 yard medley relay, splitting a 44.16 for the butterfly leg of the relay.[56] The fourth and final day, he ranked ninth in the prelims heats of the 100 yard freestyle with a 42.68 to qualify for the b-final.[57] In the evening finals session, he placed first in the b-final of the 100 yard freestyle with a 42.27 before helping achieve a third-place finish in the 4×100 yard freestyle relay where he swam a 41.47 for the first 100 yard portion of the relay to contribute to the final time of 2:47.17.[56][58]
2022 NCAA Championships
2022 NCAA Championships | ||
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![]() | 100 yd butterfly | 43.71 |
![]() | 4×200 yd freestyle | 6:06.83 |
![]() | 100 yd freestyle | 41.09 |
Minakov competed in two events on the first day of the 2022 NCAA Championships, starting by helping achieve an eighth-place finish in the 4×50 yard medley relay in 1:22.41 by splitting a 19.42 for the butterfly leg of the relay, then contributing a split of 1:31.49 for the lead-off leg of the 4×200 yard freestyle relay to help place third in 6:06.83.[59][60] The next day, he helped place fourteenth in the 4×50 yard freestyle relay with a 1:16.36, splitting a 19.20 for the lead-off leg of the relay.[61] For the prelims heats of the 100 yard butterfly on the third morning, he qualified for the final of the event ranking first with a personal best time of 43.77 seconds and broke the pool record of 44.01 seconds set by Joseph Schooling in 2016.[62][63] He won the 100 yard butterfly title in the final, breaking his own pool record with a personal best time of 43.71 seconds and finishing less than two-tenths of a second ahead of second-place finisher Luca Urlando and third-place finisher Youssef Ramadan.[11] Following up his 43.71, he split a 43.58 for the butterfly leg of the 4×100 yard medley relay to help place sixth in 3:01.70.[64] In the morning prelims heats of the 100 yard freestyle on the fourth and final day, he qualified for the final ranking fourth with a personal best time of 41.29 seconds.[65] He swam another personal best time in the final of the 100 yard freestyle, finishing third in 41.09 seconds, which was less than three-tenths of a second behind first-place finisher Brooks Curry and less than three-tenths of a second ahead of sixth-place finisher Drew Kibler.[66] For the 4×100 yard freestyle relay, he led-off with a 41.61, helping achieve an eighth-place finish in 2:48.21.[67]
International championships
Meet | 100 free | 50 fly | 100 fly | 4×50 free | 4×100 free | 4×200 free | 4×50 medley | 4×100 medley | 4×50 mixed free | 4×100 mixed free | 4×100 mixed medley |
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EYOF 2017 | ![]() | N/A | ![]() | N/A | ![]() | N/A | N/A | ![]() | N/A | ![]() | ![]() |
WJC 2017 | 45th | ![]() | ![]() | N/A | 5th | N/A | ![]() | N/A | ![]() | ||
EJC 2018 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | N/A | ![]() | N/A | ![]() | N/A | ![]() | ![]() | |
YOG 2018 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | N/A | ![]() | N/A | N/A | ![]() | N/A | ![]() | ![]() |
EJC 2019 | ![]() | ![]() | N/A | ![]() | N/A | ![]() | N/A | ![]() | ![]() | ||
WC 2019 | ![]() | N/A | ![]() | N/A | ![]() | N/A | 4th[a] | ||||
WJC 2019 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | N/A | ![]() | N/A | ![]() | N/A | ![]() | ![]() | |
EC 2020 | ![]() | 6th | 13th | N/A | ![]() | N/A | ![]() | N/A | 4th | ||
OG 2020 | 10th | N/A | 4th | N/A | 7th | N/A | 4th | N/A | N/A | ||
SCW 2021 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | N/A | N/A | |||
NCAA 2022 | ![]() | N/A | ![]() | 14th | 8th | ![]() | 8th | 6th | N/A | N/A | N/A |
- a Minakov swam only in the heats.
Personal best times
Long course metres (50 m pool)
Event | Time | Meet | Date | Age | Location | Notes | Ref |
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50 m freestyle | 22.71 | 2020 Summer Olympics | 28 July 2021 | 19 | Tokyo, Japan | † | [9] |
100 m freestyle | 47.57 | 2020 Russian National Championships | 30 October 2020 | 18 | Kazan | former WJ | [2] |
50 m butterfly | 23.02 | 2021 Russian National Championships | 4 April 2021 | 19 | Kazan | [2] | |
100 m butterfly | 50.83 | 2019 World Aquatics Championships | 27 July 2019 | 17 | Gwangju, South Korea | NR | [8] |
Records not set in finals: h – heat; sf – semifinal; r – relay 1st leg; rh – relay heat 1st leg; b – B final; † – en route to final mark; tt – time trial
Short course metres (25 m pool)
Event | Time | Meet | Date | Age | Location | Notes | Ref | |
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50 m freestyle | 21.14 | h, r | 2021 World Short Course Championships | 19 December 2021 | 19 | Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | [45] | |
100 m freestyle | 46.64 | 2020 Russian National Championships | 14 December 2020 | 18 | Saint Petersburg | [68] | ||
50 m butterfly | 22.34 | 2020 Russian National Championships | 18 December 2020 | 18 | Saint Petersburg | WJ | [3] | |
100 m butterfly | 49.21 | 2021 World Short Course Championships | 18 December 2021 | 19 | Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | [43] |
Records not set in finals: h – heat; sf – semifinal; r – relay 1st leg; rh – relay heat 1st leg; b – B final; † – en route to final mark; tt – time trial
Short course yards (25 yd pool)
Event | Time | Meet | Date | Age | Location | Ref | |
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50 yd freestyle | 19.08 | 2022 Pac-12 Conference Championships | 3 March 2022 | 19 | Federal Way, United States | [53] | |
100 yd freestyle | 41.09 | 2022 NCAA Championships | 26 March 2022 | 20 | Atlanta, United States | [66] | |
200 yd freestyle | 1:31.49 | r | 2022 NCAA Championships | 23 March 2022 | 20 | Atlanta, United States | [60] |
100 yd butterfly | 43.71 | 2022 NCAA Championships | 25 March 2022 | 20 | Atlanta, United States | [11] |
Legend: r — relay 1st leg
Records
Long course metres (50 m pool)
No. | Event | Time | Meet | Location | Date | Status | Age | Ref | |
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1 | 4×100 m medley relay | 3:35.17 | 2018 Summer Youth Olympics | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 10 October 2018 | Former | 16 | [15] | |
2 | 4×100 m medley relay (2) | 3:33.19 | 2019 World Junior Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 25 August 2019 | Current | 17 | [21] | |
3 | 50 m butterfly | 23.05 | sf | Russian National Championships | Kazan | 28 October 2020 | Current | 18 | [4] |
4 | 100 m freestyle | 47.57 | Russian National Championships | Kazan | 30 October 2020 | Former | 18 | [5] |
Legend: sf – semifinals
Short course metres (25 m pool)
No. | Event | Time | Meet | Location | Date | Status | Age | Ref |
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1 | 50 m butterfly | 22.34 | Russian National Championships | Saint Petersburg | 18 December 2020 | Current | 18 | [3] |
Long course metres (50 m pool)
No. | Event | Time | Meet | Location | Date | Status | Age | Ref | |
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1 | 100 m butterfly | 51.12 | 2018 Summer Youth Olympics | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 9 October 2018 | Former | 16 | [14] | |
2 | 100 m butterfly (2) | 50.94 | sf | 2019 World Aquatics Championships | Gwangju, South Korea | 26 July 2019 | Former | 17 | [20] |
3 | 100 m butterfly (3) | 50.83 | 2019 World Aquatics Championships | Gwangju, South Korea | 27 July 2019 | Current | 17 | [6] | |
4 | 4×100 m medley relay | 3:28.81 | 2019 World Aquatics Championships | Gwangju, South Korea | 28 July 2019 | Current | 17 | [8] |
Legend: sf – semifinals
Awards and honours
- SwimSwam Top 100 (Men's): 2021 (#14),[69] 2022 (#32)[70]
- Swimming World, The Week That Was: 3 December 2019 (#1)[13]
- Pac-12 Conference, Swimmer of the Week (male): 10 February 2022[71]
- FINA, Male Swimmer of the Championships: 2019 World Junior Championships[23]
- SwimSwam Swammy Award, Junior Swimmer of the Year (male): 2019,[72] 2020[73]
- SwimSwam Swammy Award, Breakout Swimmer of the Year (male): 2019[74]
See also
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