Petr Romashkin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Olympic swimmer
Date of Birth: 05-Jul-1989
Place of Birth: Tashkent
Profession: swimmer
Nationality: Uzbekistan
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Petr Romashkin
- Petr Romashkin (Uzbek: ???? ????????; born July 5, 1989) is an Uzbek swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.
- He was selected to compete for the Uzbek swimming squad at the 2008 Summer Olympics, placing himself in the top 60 of the men's 100 m freestyle. Romashkin qualified for the men's 100 m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 50.92 from the Russian Open Swimming Championships in Saint Petersburg.
- He challenged seven other swimmers on the third heat, including 16-year-olds Virdhawal Khade of India and Christopher Duenas of Guam.
- Romashkin raced to sixth place by three hundredths of a second (0.03) behind South Korea's Lim Nam-Gyun in a time of 51.83 seconds.
- Romashkin failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed fifty-fifth out of 64 swimmers in the preliminary heats.
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