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Former Drumehller resident and member of the Aquadinnies, Andrew Poznikoff is turning heads on the international stage, posting a top-10 time in the 200-metre breaststroke at the World Short Course Championships.
Andrew is the son of Ken Poznikoff and Karen Almquist and is in Istanbul, Turkey competing. He is one of six men from Canada at the championships. According to a press release from Simon Fraser University, where Poznikoff used to swim, he finished 18th in the preliminaries of the men's 200-metre breaststroke this morning.
His time of 2:10.06 was the ninth fastest time ever posted by a Canadian man in that event, and over a second faster than his previous personal best time of 2:11.41.
He also earned a 33rd place finish in the 100-metre breaststroke on Wednesday, tying his personal best time of 1:00.37, which he earned this past summer at the Swedish SCM Championships.
You can follow Andrew and his news feeds his website, live from Turkey, at PozzSwim.ca, or Facebook Andrew Poznikoff (official swim site) for more information.