Vadim Alekseyev
Vadim Alekseyev (Hebrew: ודים אלכסייב, Russian: Вадим Алексеев ; born April 11, 1970[1]) is a retired Olympic breaststroke swimmer who competed for first the Soviet Union, then Israel.[2][3] Alexeev was born in Almaty, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union.[4] In 1989 he set the Soviet record in the 100-meter breaststroke (1:02.11); it was the third-fastest time in the world that year.[8] There, he swam the four-man 4x100 meter medley with Yoav Bruck, Eitan Urbach, and Dan Kutler.[4] At the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Tom Be'eri beat Alekseyev's prior Israeli record in the men's 100-meter breaststroke by one-tenth of a second (at 1:02.42).