Andrei Kovalenko (Андрій Коваленко; born 6 November 1970 in Kiev) is an Australian water polo player and current coach of the UWA Torpedoes Men's Water Polo team and coach of the u18 and u16 UWA City Beach Bears. He competed for Australia at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, as well as for CIS at Barcelona 1992 in which he won a bronze medal and Ukraine at Atlanta 1996. In 2007 he helped Australia attain a bronze medal in the FINA Water Polo World League. In recent years, Andrei has starting playing Men's Softball for the Woodlands Wolves Ball Club. Andrei has started to refine his pitching (underarm), and shown his skills in the outfield with his "Rocket for an Arm". In the off season, Andrei has also started playing Baseball for the Wembley Magpies Baseball Club. Andrei is a reliable pitcher, picking up different variations with ease. See also List of Olympic medalists in water polo (men) References Australian Olympic Team (Handbook 2000 Olympic Games Sydney Australia) External links 1970 births Living people Sportspeople from Kyiv Soviet male water polo players Ukrainian male water polo players Australian male water polo players Water polo players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Water polo players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Water polo players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic water polo players of the Unified Team Olympic water polo players of Australia Olympic water polo players of Ukraine Olympic bronze medalists for the Unified Team Ukrainian emigrants to Australia Olympic medalists in water polo Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Australian water polo coaches