Irakli Bolkvadze

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Irakli Bolkvadze
Personal information
Nickname(s) Ika, Bolkva
Nationality  Georgia
Born (1994-12-12) 12 December 1994 (age 29)
Nicosia, Cyprus
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Weight 73 kg (161 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Breaststroke, medley
Club Hamilton Aquatics Dubai
Coach Georgi Abzianidze
Irina Minjulina
Chris Tidey[1]
Medal record
Men's swimming
Representing  Georgia
European Junior Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2012 Antwerp 200 m breaststroke

Irakli Bolkvadze (Georgian: ირაკლი ბოლქვაძე; born December 12, 1994 in Nicosia, Cyprus) is a Georgian swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke and individual medley events.[1][2] He won a bronze medal in the boys' 200 m breaststroke at the 2012 European Junior Swimming Championships in Antwerp, Belgium with a time of 2:15.46.[3] Bolkvadze is also trained by his personal coach Irina Minjulina.

Bolkvadze qualified for the men's 200 m breaststroke at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London by breaking a new Georgian record and eclipsing a FINA B-standard entry time of 2:16.35 from the European Championships in Debrecen, Hungary.[4][5] In Georgia's Olympic history, he also became the first ever swimmer to surpass an invitation time set by FINA.[6] He dominated the first heat by two seconds ahead of Kyrgyzstan's Dmitrii Aleksandrov, lowering his Georgian record time to 2:15.86. Bolkvadze failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed twenty-eighth overall in the preliminary heats.[7]

At the 2013 FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Bolkvadze demolished a new Georgian record of 2:03.55 in the 200 m individual medley, but finished thirty-fifth from the morning prelims.[8][9] Bolkvadze is currently a member of Hamilton Aquatics Club in Dubai, United Arab Emirates under head coach Chris Tidey.

Personal bests

  • 50 m breaststroke – 30.28
  • 100 m breaststroke – 1:04.24
  • 200 m breaststroke – 2:15.46
  • 200 m individual medley – 2:03.55
  • 400 m individual medley – 4:29.25

References

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