Pāvels Murāns
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality |
 Latvia |
| Born |
19 June 1985 Rīga, Latvian SSR |
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in) |
| Weight | 76 kg (168 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Breaststroke |
| Club | Rīga Swimming School |
| Coach | Jeļena Solovjova[1] |
Pāvels Murāns (born June 19, 1985 in Rīga) is a retired Latvian swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.[2] He is a member of Rīga Swimming School, and is coached and trained by Jeļena Solovjova.[1]
Murans qualified for the men's 100 m breaststroke at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by eclipsing a FINA B-standard entry time of 1:04.95 from the Croatian Open Championships in Rijeka.[3][1] He challenged seven other swimmers on the second heat, including three-time Olympians Jean Luc Razakarivony of Madagascar and Yevgeny Petrashov of Kyrgyzstan. He cruised to fifth place by eight hundredths of a second (0.08) behind Raphael Matthew Chua of the Philippines in 1:06.45. Murans failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed fifty-first overall on the first day of preliminaries.[4][5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Vaiders, Arturs (17 July 2004). "Olimpietis no Šķirotavas" [Olympians on the yard] (in Latvian). Diena. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
- ↑ "Pāvels Murāns". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
- ↑ "Swimming – Men's 100m Breaststroke Startlist (Heat 2)" (PDF). Athens 2004. Omega Timing. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
- ↑ "Men's 100m Breaststroke Heat 2". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 14 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
- ↑ 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.