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| Full name | Sergey Geybel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | Sergei Geibel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team |  Russia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1981-10-25)25 October 1981 (age 44)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Breaststroke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach |  Alexander Martynov | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Sergey Geybel (born 25 October 1981) is a competitive Russianswimmer specializing inbreaststroke events. He is a formerworld record holder in the4×100-metre medley relay and the4×50-metre medley relay. He won agold medal at the2008 World Short Course Championships as part of the world-record-setting finals relay team in the 4×100-metre medley relay. He also won two silver medals and one bronze medal over the course of his career in the 4×50-metre medley relay at theEuropean Short Course Championships.
At the2006 European Short Course Swimming Championships inHelsinki,Finland, Geybel placed eleventh in the 50-metre breaststroke with a time of 27.65 seconds.[2] In the 100-metre breaststroke he swam a time of 59.53 seconds in the final, placing sixth overall.[3] He also swam the breaststroke leg of the 4×50-metre medley relay in the prelims and the final, splitting a 26.87 in the final to help the relay place fifth overall.[4]
| 2008 World Short Course Championships | ||
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 | 4×100 m medley relay | 3:24.29 (WR) |
In April 2008, at the2008 World Short Course Championships inManchester,England, Geybel started competition in the 100-metre breaststroke where he placed thirteenth in the semifinals with a time of 59.48 seconds, just two spots behindRyan Lochte of theUnited States, and did not advance to the final of the event.[5] For his second event, Geybel ranked seventeenth in the prelims heats of the 50-metre breaststroke with a time of 27.57 seconds and did not advance to the semifinals.[6] In his third and final event of the Championships, Geybel swam the breaststroke leg of the 4×100-metre medley relay, splitting a 57.93 in the final to help his relay teammates,Stanislav Donets (backstroke),Yevgeny Korotyshkin (butterfly), andAlexandr Sukhorukov (freestyle), win thegold medal and set a newworld record,European record andRussian record in the event at 3:24.29, which broke the former world record set by the United States relay consisting ofAaron Peirsol,Brendan Hansen,Ian Crocker, andJason Lezak, by eight tenths of a second.[7][8]
| 2008 European Championships | ||
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 | 4×50 m medley relay | 1:33.31 |
Geybel won a silver medal in the 4×50-metre medley relay at the2008 European Short Course Swimming Championships inRijeka,Croatia, swimming in both the prelims and final of the event and helping the finals relay achieve a time of 1:33.31 in the final to earn the silver medal.[9] In the 100-metre breaststroke he placed eleventh overall with a time of 58.90 seconds.[10] He also competed in the 50-metre breaststroke, where he placed fourteenth in the semifinals with a time of 27.28 seconds that did not qualify him for the final.[11]
At the 2009 Vladimir Salnikov Swimming Cup inSaint Petersburg,Russia, Geybel helped set new world, European, and Russian records in the 4×100-metre medley relay at 3:19.16, swimming the breaststroke leg of the relay with a split of 56.43 seconds while Stanislav Donets swam backstroke, Yevgeny Korotyshkin swam butterfly, andDanila Izotov swam freestyle, to help topple the former record set by the United States relay team ofNick Thoman,Mark Gangloff,Michael Phelps, andNathan Adrian.[12]
| 2010 European Championships | ||
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 | 4×50 m medley relay | 1:34.25 |
At the2010 European Short Course Swimming Championships inEindhoven,Netherlands in November, Geybel tied for ninth place overall with a time of 59.24 seconds in the 100-metre breaststroke.[13] For his other individual event, the 50-metre breaststroke, he placed sixth in the final with a time of 26.98 seconds.[14] In his one relay event of the Championships, the 4×50-metre medley relay, Geybel helped earn the bronze medal with a finals relay time of 1:34.25, splitting the breaststroke leg of the relay in 26.51 seconds.[15]
| 2011 European Championships | ||
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| 4×50 m medley relay | 1:33.86 |
InSzczecin,Poland, at the2011 European Short Course Swimming Championships in December, Geybel ranked eighth overall in the prelims heats of the 100-metre breaststroke with a time of 58.90 seconds, though he did not advance to the semifinals as he was not one of the top two fastest Russians in the prelims heats for the event.[16] Swimming the breaststroke leg of the 4×50-metre medley relay, he helped the finals relay achieve a time of 1:33.86 and earn the silver medal in the race, splitting a time of 26.47 seconds.[17] Geybel was the highest ranking Russian in the final of the 50-metre breaststroke, placing seventh with a time of 26.84 seconds.[18]
At the2012 World Short Course Championships inIstanbul,Turkey in December, Geybel competed in one event, the50-metre breaststroke, where he placed eighth in the final with a time of 26.87 seconds, was the highest ranking Russian swimmer, and missed out on making the podium by 0.54 seconds toFlorent Manaudou ofFrance who captured the bronze medal in 26.33 seconds.[19]
At the2014 World Short Course Championships inDoha,Qatar, Geybel swam in the prelims and the final of the4×50-metre mixed medley relay, helping the finals relay achieve a fifth-place finish in a time of 1:38.93 by splitting a 26.20 for the breaststroke leg of the relay.[20] Geybel split a 25.96 for the breaststroke leg of the4×50-metre medley relay in the prelims heats, helping the prelims relay of him, Stanislav Donets (backstroke),Aleksandr Popkov (butterfly), andEvgeny Sedov (freestyle) set a newworld record in the event at 1:32.78 and advance the relay to the final ranked first overall.[21][22] The finals relay, which did not include Geybel, placed fourth and no relay members, prelims nor finals, won a medal in the event.[23] In his individual event of the Championships, Geybel ranked eleventh overall and did not advance to the final of the50-metre breaststroke with his time of 26.54 seconds.[24]
On 13 August 2015, as part of the year'sFINA World Masters Championships held at thePalace of Water Sports inKazan, Russia, Geybel set a newmasters world record in the long course 50-metre breaststroke for the 30—34 age group with a time of 28.24 seconds.[25]
Following the2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Geybel was banned byLEN indefinitely from their competitions starting on 3 March and byFINA from their competitions effective at least from 21 April to 31 December 2022 as a means of keeping all Russians and Belarusians in-check by the international governing bodies (LEN - Europe; FINA - World).[26][27] The times he and other Russians swam at other competitions during the year FINA did not count towards world records nor world rankings.[28] An announcement was made in April 2023 byWorld Aquatics (FINA rebranded a few months before the announcement) of a back-acting extension of the 2022 FINA ban on Russians and Belarusians indefinitely.[29]
| Meet | 50 breaststroke | 100 breaststroke | 200 breaststroke | 4×50 medley relay | 4×100 medley relay | 4×50 mixed medley relay |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC 2006 | 11th | 6th | 5th | — | — | |
| WC 2008 | 17th | 13th | — |  | — | |
| EC 2008 | 14th | 11th |  | — | — | |
| EC 2009 | 8th | 13th | | — | — | |
| EC 2010 | 6th | 9th |  | — | — | |
| EC 2011 | 7th | 11th (h) | 31st | | — | — |
| WC 2012 | 8th | — | — | |||
| WC 2014 | 11th | 4th[a] | 5th |
| No. | Event | Time | Meet | Location | Date | Age | Status | Notes | Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4×100 m medley relay[a] | 3:24.29 | 2008 World Short Course Championships | Manchester,England | 13 April 2008 | 26 | Former | FormerER,NR | [7][8] | |
| 2 | 4×100 m medley relay (2)[b] | 3:19.16 | 2009 Vladimir Salnikov Swimming Cup | Saint Petersburg,Russia | 20 December 2009 | 28 | Former | FormerER,NR | [12] | |
| 3 | 4×50 m medley relay[c] | 1:32.78 | h | 2014 World Short Course Championships | Doha,Qatar | 4 December 2014 | 33 | Former | FormerER,NR | [21][22] |
a split 57.93 (breaststroke); withStanislav Donets (backstroke),Yevgeny Korotyshkin (butterfly),Alexandr Sukhorukov (freestyle)
b split 56.43 (breaststroke); with Stanislav Donets (backstroke), Yevgeny Korotyshkin (butterfly),Danila Izotov (freestyle)
c split 25.96 (breaststroke); with Stanislav Donets (backstroke),Aleksandr Popkov (butterfly),Evgeny Sedov (freestyle)
| No. | Event | Time | Meet | Location | Date | Age | Age Group | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 50 m breaststroke | 28.24 | 2015FINA World Masters Championships | Kazan,Russia | 13 August 2015 | 33 | 30—34 | [25] |
