Aleksander Baldin

Aleksander Baldin
Personal information
Nationality  Estonia
Born 31 August 1984
Tallinn, Estonia
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in)
Weight 80 kg (176 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Breaststroke
Club SK Garant
Coach Dmitri Kapelini

Aleksander Baldin (born August 31, 1984 in Tallinn) is a retired Estonian swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.[1] He is a 15-time long-course Estonian swimming champion in the breaststroke (50, 100, and 200). He is a member of SK Garant in Tallinn, and is coached and trained by Dmitri Kapelini.

Baldin qualified for two swimming events at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by eclipsing FINA B-standard entry times of 1:04.50 (100 m breaststroke) and 2:16.73 (200 m breaststroke) from the Russian Championships in Moscow.[2][3] In the 100 m breaststroke, Baldin raced to seventh place and forty-ninth overall on the third heat by half a second (0.50) behind Cyprus' Kyriakos Dimosthenous in 1:06.04.[4][5] In the 200 m breaststroke, Baldin challenged seven other swimmers on the same heat, including Olympic veterans Ratapong Sirisanont of Thailand and Daniel Málek of the Czech Republic. Baldin took a sixth spot in his heat by 0.43 of a second behind Malek in 2:17.90. Baldin failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-second overall in the preliminaries.[6][7]

References

  1. ↑ "Aleksander Baldin". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  2. ↑ "Swimming – Men's 100m Breaststroke Startlist (Heat 3)" (PDF). Athens 2004. Omega Timing. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
  3. ↑ "Swimming – Men's 200m Breaststroke Startlist (Heat 3)" (PDF). Athens 2004. Omega Timing. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
  4. ↑ "Men's 100m Breaststroke Heat 3". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 14 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  5. ↑ Whitten, Phillip (14 August 2004). "Prelims, Men's 100 Breaststroke: Kitajima, Hansen Qualify One-Two; Japanese Sets Olympic Record". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
  6. ↑ "Men's 200m Breaststroke Heat 3". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
  7. ↑ Thomas, Stephen (17 August 2004). "Men’s 200 Breaststroke Prelims, Day 4: 15 Year-Old Daniel Gyurta Continues the Hungarian Tradition, Leads with a Swift 2:11.29". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 11 April 2013.

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