Andrey Korneyev | |
Fullname: | Андрей Корнеев |
Strokes: | Breaststroke |
Club: | Central Sport Klub Army, Moscow-Omsk |
Birth Date: | 10 January 1974 |
Birth Place: | Omsk, Russian SFSR |
Death Place: | Moscow, Russian Federation |
Weight: | 80kg (180lb) |
Andrey Korneyev (ru|Андрей Корнеев; 10 January 1974 – 2 May 2014) was a breaststroke swimmer from Russia, who won the bronze medal in the men's 200 m breaststroke event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. A year earlier he captured the gold medal in the same event at the 1995 European Championships in Vienna, Austria.
Korneyev died on 2 May 2014 of cancer in Moscow at the age of 40.[1]