Dragoș Agache
Romanian swimmer
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Dragoș Agache (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈdraɡoʃ aˈɡake]; born March 8, 1984, in Brăila) is a Romanian swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.[1][2] He set a new Romanian record of 27.47 to collect a silver medal in the 50 m breaststroke at the 2010 European Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary.[3]
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| Nationality |  Romania | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 March 1984 Brăila, Romania | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 75 kg (165 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Breaststroke | ||||||||||||||
| Club | CS Farul Constanta (ROU)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| College team | Iowa Hawkeyes (USA)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Coach | Octavian Tileaga (ROU) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Agache qualified for the men's 100 m breaststroke at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, by clearing a FINA B-cut of 1:01.19 from the World Championships in Shanghai, China.[4][5] He challenged seven other swimmers on the third heat, including two-time Olympians Martin Liivamägi of Estonia and Carlos Almeida of Portugal. He rounded out the field to last place by less than 0.14 of a second behind Poland's Dawid Szulich and Israel's Imri Ganiel in 1:02.93. Agache failed to advance into the semifinals, as he shared a thirty-seventh place tie with four-time Olympian Malick Fall of Senegal on the first day of preliminaries.[6][7]
Agache is a former member of the swimming team for the Iowa Hawkeyes, and a graduate of management information systems at the University of Iowa in University Heights, Iowa (2008).
