Andres Olvik

{{short description|Estonian swimmer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2023}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1986|4|16|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Tallinn, Estonia

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| height = 1.94 m

| weight = 89 kg

| strokes = Backstroke

| club = Kalevi Ujumiskool

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{{MedalSport | Men's swimming}}

{{MedalCountry| Estonia}}

{{MedalCompetition|Baltic Championships}}

{{MedalGold|2011 Riga|100 m backstroke}}

{{MedalGold|2011 Riga|200 m backstroke}}

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Andres Olvik (born 16 April 1986) is an Estonian swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events.{{cite sports-reference |title=Andres Olvik |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ol/andres-olvik-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417101603/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ol/andres-olvik-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |access-date=27 November 2012}} He represented his nation Estonia at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has won two gold medals in a backstroke double (100 and 200 m) at the 2011 Baltic Championships in Riga, Latvia. Apart from his medal treasury, he also set a long-course Estonian record in the 200 m backstroke (2:02.67) at the 2012 European Championships in Debrecen, Hungary.{{cite web |title=2012 European Aquatics Championships (Debrecen, Hungary) – Men's 200m Backstroke Heats |url=http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010C030000040400FFFFFFFFFFFF01 |format=PDF |publisher=Omega Timing |access-date=11 February 2013}} Olvik currently trains for the Estonian national team, while coaching numerous age groups at Kalev Swim School in Tallinn.{{cite news |title=Tartus algasid ujumise Eesti meistrivõistlused |trans-title=Swimming champs begin in Tartu, Estonia |language=et |url=http://sport.delfi.ee/news/varia/ujumine/tartus-algasid-ujumise-eesti-meistrivoistlused?id=64591816 |publisher=Delfi |date=25 June 2012 |access-date=6 April 2016}}

Olvik competed for the Estonian team in the men's 200 m backstroke at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Leading up to the Games, he raced his way to the top of the field with a solid 2:03.12 to crush the Estonian record and comfortably register under the FINA B-cut (2:03.90) by about eight tenths of a second at the Baltic State Multi-Nations Meet in Riga, Latvia.{{cite web |title=Olympic Cut Sheet – Men's 200m Backstroke |url=http://magazines.swimmingworld.com:9997/SPIPDF/080508olyscutsheet.pdf |page=26 |publisher=Swimming World Magazine |access-date=9 April 2013}} Rallying from fifth at the 150-metre turn in heat two, Olvik tried to maintain his pace towards the final stretch, until the host nation China's Deng Jian made a late surge by more than half a second to edge him out to sixth with a 2:03.66. Olvik failed to advance to the semifinals, as he placed fortieth overall in the prelims.{{cite web |title=Swimming: Men's 200m Backstroke Heat 2 |url=http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/swimming/resultsandschedules/rsc=SWM042900/index.html |work=Beijing 2008 |publisher=NBC Olympics |access-date=27 November 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120821061614/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/swimming/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DSWM042900/index.html |archive-date=21 August 2012}}{{cite news |first=Inga |last=Höglund |title=Olviku eesmärk jäi täitmata |trans-title=Olvik's goal failed to meet |language=et |url=http://sport.postimees.ee/26599/olviku-eesmark-jai-taitmata |publisher=Postimees |date=11 August 2008 |access-date=6 April 2016}}