Career
He was selected to compete for the Uzbek swimming squad at the 2008 Summer Olympics, placing himself in the top 60 of the men"s 100 m freestyle. Romashkin qualified for the men"s 100 m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 50.92 from the Russian Open Swimming Championships in Saint St. Petersburg. He challenged seven other swimmers on the third heat, including 16-year-olds Virdhawal Khade of India and Christopher Duenas of Guam.
Romashkin raced to sixth place by three hundredths of a second (003) behind South of Korea"s Lim Nam-Gyun in a time of 51.83 seconds.
Romashkin failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed fifty-fifth out of 64 swimmers in the preliminary heats.
