GOVOROV Andrii

Olympic Games

Year	Location	50Free
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	5th (21.74)
2012	London, GBR	SF (22.12)

Youth Olympic Games

Year	Location	50Free	100Free	50Fly
2010	Singapore, SIN	1st (22.35)	H (56.15)	1st (23.64)

World Championships

Year	Location	50Free	100Free	50Fly	4x100Free M	4x100Medley M
2019	Gwangju, KOR	H (22.57)	-	6th (22.91)	-	-
2017	Budapest, HUN	SF (21.96)	-	3rd (22.84)	-	-
2015	Kazan, RUS	5th (21.86)	H (49.81)	5th (23.18)	H (3:24.07)	-
2013	Barcelona, ESP	SF (21.96)	-	5th (23.22)	-	-
2011	Shanghai, CHN	H (22.51)	-	8th (23.64)	-	-
2009	Rome, ITA	H (23.05)	H (50.04)	H (24.16)	-	H (3:36.99)

European Championships

Year	Location	50Free	50Fly
2020	Budapest, HUN	SF (22.24)	2nd (23.01)
2018	Glasgow, GBR	SF (22.04)	1st (22.48)

Champions Swim Series overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2019

Year	50Fly	100Fly
2020	1 x 2nd, 1 x 3rd	-
2019	1 x 2nd, 2 x 3rd	1 x 4th

Champions Swim Series - Ten best performances since 2019

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
2	2020	Men's 50m Butterfly	Shenzhen, CHN	23.30
2	2019	Men's 50m Butterfly	Budapest, HUN	22.87
3	2020	Men's 50m Butterfly	Beijing, CHN	23.19
3	2019	Men's 50m Butterfly	Indianapolis, IN, USA	23.14
3	2019	Men's 50m Butterfly	Guangzhou, CHN	23.27
4	2019	100m Butterfly	Indianapolis, IN, USA	54.49

World Championships Short Course

Year	Location	50Free	50Fly
2016	Windsor, ON, CAN	H (21.81)	4th (22.55)

Legend
Free - Freestyle, Back - Backstroke, Breast - Breaststroke, Fly - Butterfly, IndMed - Individual Medley, SF - Semifinal, H - Heats, DNS - Did Not Start, M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed, DSQ - Disqualified, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not swim in final

The Ukrainian Rocket (gorod.dp.ua, 17 Jun 2013)

Reading books. (Athlete, 16 Jan 2020)

Athlete

Political Science - Dnipro National University, Ukraine

Wife Daria, one son [2018]

English, Italian, Russian, Ukrainian

Lukas Brandmeier, GER (globoesporte.com, 07 Feb 2019)

2009 for Ukraine, World Championships in Rome, Italy (Athlete, 27 Jan 2016)

In August 2019 he had shoulder surgery and returned to training four months later. (Arilson Silva Instagram profile, 22 Dec 2019)

He took up swimming at age seven in Gadzhiyevo, Russian Federation. (Athlete, 27 Jan 2016)

He started swimming because he felt he was better at it than other sports. "I was pulled more toward the water. In fact, my relatives are sailors and submarine crew members." (sport.segodnya.ua, 30 Jul 2012; other.sport.ua, 30 Aug 2010)

To win gold at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo and to swim under 22 seconds in the 50m butterfly. (globoesporte.com, 07 Feb 2019; gorod.dp.ua, 27 Sep 2018)

Winning bronze in the 50m butterfly at the 2017 World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, and setting a world record in 50m butterfly at the 2018 Sette Colli Trophy in Rome, Italy. (SportsDeskOnline, 18 May 2021; ua.tribuna.com, 27 Nov 2018; Athlete, 24 Aug 2017)

His mother Tatyana Govorova. (Instagram profile, 27 Nov 2019)

"The higher you set the bar, the higher you reach." (swimmersdaily.com, 13 Sep 2018)

For his performance at the 2013 World University Games in Kazan, Russian Federation, he received the Order for Merit [third grade] in Ukraine. (president.gov.ua, 25 Jul 2013)

He has received the title of Honoured Master of Sport in Ukraine. (dsmsu.gov.ua, 28 Dec 2020)