Oleg Rabota

Who is Oleg Rabota?

Oleg Rabota is a Kazakhstani swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and backstroke events. He is a multiple-time national record holder and a silver medalist for the 200 m freestyle at the 2007 Asian Indoor Games in Macau, China. Rabota is currently a member of the swimming team for Southern Illinois Salukis at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois.

Rabota qualified for two swimming events at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by clearing FINA B-standard entry times of 3:56.98 from the Kazakhstan Open in Almaty and 2:03.75 from the Good Luck Beijing China Open. In the 400 m freestyle, Rabota challenged four other swimmers on the first heat, including three-time Olympian Květoslav Svoboda of the Czech Republic. He rounded out the field to last place and thirty-sixth overall by nearly three seconds behind Argentina's Juan Martín Pereyra, with a time of 4:02.16. In his second event, 200 m backstroke, Rabota raced to second on the same heat by 0.78 of a second behind Brett Fraser of the Cayman Islands in 2:01.95. Rabota failed to qualify for the semifinals, as he placed thirty-third out of 42 swimmers in the preliminaries.