Stanislav Kuzmin
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 Kazakhstan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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24 July 1986 Kostanay, Kazakh SSR | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 85 kg (187 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stroke(s) | Freestyle, butterfly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | Drury Panthers (USA) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Brian Reynolds (USA) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Stanislav Kuzmin (Kazakh: Станислав Кузьмин; born June 24, 1986 in Kostanay) is a Kazakhstani swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle and butterfly events.[1] He is a multiple-time national record holder and a five-time medalist (including three golds) for the freestyle, butterfly, and relay swimming events at the 2009 Asian Indoor Games in Hanoi, Vietnam.[2][3] He also won a bronze medal, as a member of the Kazakhstan swimming team, in the 4×100 m medley relay at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China.[4]
Kuzmin qualified for the men's 50 m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 23.09 from the Kazakhstan Open Championships in Almaty.[5] He challenged seven other swimmers on the seventh heat, including two-time Olympians Joshua Laban of the Virgin Islands, and Jevon Atkinson of Jamaica. Kuzmin edged out Atkinson to take a fifth spot by eight hundredths of a second (0.08), posting his personal best of 22.91 seconds. Kuzmin failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed forty-eighth out of 97 swimmers in the preliminaries.[6]
Kuzmin is currently playing for the Drury Panthers swimming and diving team under head coach Brian Reynolds, and also, a sports management major at the Drury University in Springfield, Missouri.
References
- ↑ "Stanislav Kuzmin". Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
- ↑ "Khade wins bronze in 50m freestyle at Asian Indoor Games". Zee News. 5 November 2009. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
- ↑ Asanov, Madi (12 November 2009). "Kazakh team wins multiple medals at Asian Games". Central Asia Online. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
- ↑ "Sun clinches 1,500m, China disqualified in relay". The Hindu. 19 November 2010. Retrieved 21 May 2013.
- ↑ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Men's 50m Freestyle" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 2. Retrieved 9 April 2013.
- ↑ "Men's 50m Freestyle Heat 7". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 31 December 2012.