Bashkir swimmer Andrey Nikolaev won silver medal at Paralympics in Tokyo

20-year-old Bashkir swimmer Andrey Nikolaev won a silver medal at the Tokyo Paralympic Games. The resident of the city of Salavat conquered a distance of 100 meters freestyle. It took him 57.69 seconds. Nikolaev lost to Australian swimmer Ben Popham. The representative of Greece, Dimostenis Mikhalentsakis, rose to the third step of the podium.

Note that the swimmers covered the distance in the S8 category among people with various forms of disabilities, including people with amputations and cerebral palsy.

Andrey Nikolaev is a two-time winner and a bronze medalist of the World Championship, a two-time winner and a two-time silver medalist of the European Championship, a multiple champion of Russia in swimming for persons with musculoskeletal disorders. Honored Master of Sports of Russia. He trains at Salavatinvest LLC in the city of Salavat and in the sports adaptive school of the Paralympic Reserve of the Republic of Bashkortostan. He started swimming in 2008. He is a part of the Russian Paralympic team since 2018.

His first coach and coach at the present time is Fanil Kiraev.