Denis Petrashov

Denis Petrashov (born February 1, 2000) is a Kyrgyz competitive swimmer who swam for the University of Louisville and was a three-time Olympic participant. He competed in the Men's 200-meter breaststroke event at the 2016 Summer Olympics and both the Men's 100-meter (swimming a 1:00.23, setting a Kyrgyz national record) and 200-meter breaststroke events at the 2021 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. He made the semifinals at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the 200-meter breaststroke, finishing seventh. Petrashov won the silver medal in the 100-meter breaststroke at the 2018 Youth Olympics, and gold medals at the 2022 Maccabiah Games in Israel in both the 100 m and 200 m breaststroke events.

Early life Petrashov's hometown is Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. His father is former three-time Olympian and former breaststroke national record holder Yevgeny Petrashov.

Three-time Olympian, 2016-2024 Representing Kyrgyzstan, he competed in the Men's 200-meter breaststroke event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio where he finished 38th with a time of 2:16.57.

At the 2021 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, he competed in both the Men's 100-meter breaststroke, where he swam a 1:00.23, finishing 27th overall, and setting a Kyrgyzstani national record, and in the 200-meter breaststroke where he finished 18th overall with a time of 2:10.07. As noted previously, his 200-meter time was a Kyrgyzstani national swimming record, which broke his previous record of 1:00.94 which he set at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships.

Petrashov also made the 2024 Olympic team for Kyrgyzstan where he finished seventh in the 200-Meter breaststroke in his semifinal heat, recording a time of 2:10.19.

International swimming highlights Petrashov won the gold medal in the 200-meter breaststroke at the 10th Asian Age Group Swimming Championships 2019 in Bangalore, India. He won two silver medals.

Petrashov won gold medals at the 2022 Maccabiah Games in Israel in the 100 m (in a time of 1:00.46, bettering the record set in the prior Maccabiah Games by American B.J. Johnson) and 200 m breaststroke events.

University of Louisville Petrashov attended the University of Louisville and competed for the Louisville Cardinals from around 2020-2024 under Head Coach Arthur Albiero. While swimming for Louisville in his first year of competition, Petrashov recorded times of 51.92 and 1:51.89 in the 100 and 200-yard breaststroke events. At the 2022 Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Championships, he was runner-up in the 200 breaststroke and seventh in the 100 breaststroke.

Olympic Games

38th (h) 200 m breaststroke 2:16.57

19th (h) 50 m breaststroke 30.08 17th (h) 100 m breaststroke 1:04.28 6th 200 m breaststroke 2:17.45

5th 100 m breaststroke 1:03.37 5th 200 m breaststroke 2:18.84

48th (h) 100 m breaststroke 1:03.14 32nd (h) 200 m breaststroke 2:18.43

16th (h) 50 m breaststroke 28.73 11th (h) 100 m breaststroke 1:02.12 5th 200 m breaststroke 2:12.19

7th 50 m breaststroke 28.70

100 m breaststroke 1:01.34 9th (h) 200 m breaststroke 2:16.70

28th (h) 100 m breaststroke 1:00.94 24th (h) 200 m breaststroke 2:11.65

27th (h) 100 m breaststroke 1:00.23 28th (h) 200 m breaststroke 2:10.07

20th (h) 50 m breaststroke 27.89 20th (h) 100 m breaststroke 1:00.86 12th (sf) 200 m breaststroke 2:11.00