Career
Razakarivony made his first Malagasy team, as a 21-year-old, at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. On his second Olympic appearance in Sydney 2000, Razakarivony edged out Saudi Arabia"s Ahmed First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Kudmani to earn a third spot and fifty-fifth overall in heat one of the 100 m breaststroke by exactly a tenth of a second (010), establishing his own lifetime best at 1:05.97. Razakarivony swam for his third time in the 100 m breaststroke at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
He received a Universality place from FINA in an entry time of 1:07.25.
He challenged seven other swimmers in heat two, including Kyrgyzstan"s Yevgeny Petrashov, who also competed with the same number of Games. He posted a time of 1:07.74 to save a sixth spot over Petrashov by four hundredths of a second (004).
Razakarivony ended his third and final Olympic stint with a fifty-fourth place effort on the first day of preliminaries.