Stanislav Kuzmin

Stanislav Kuzmin
Personal information
Nationality  Kazakhstan
Born (1986-07-24) 24 July 1986
Kostanay Region, Kazakh SSR
Height 1.89 m (6 ft 2 12 in)
Weight 85 kg (187 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle, butterfly
College team Drury Panthers (USA)
Coach Brian Reynolds (USA)

Stanislav Kuzmin (Kazakh: Станислав Кузьмин; born June 24, 1986 in Kostanay Region) 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

  1. "Stanislav Kuzmin". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
  2. "Khade wins bronze in 50m freestyle at Asian Indoor Games". Zee News. 5 November 2009. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
  3. Asanov, Madi (12 November 2009). "Kazakh team wins multiple medals at Asian Games". Central Asia Online. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
  4. "Sun clinches 1,500m, China disqualified in relay". The Hindu. 19 November 2010. Retrieved 21 May 2013.
  5. "Olympic Cut Sheet – Men's 50m Freestyle" Check |url= value (help) (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 2. Retrieved 9 April 2013.
  6. "Men's 50m Freestyle Heat 7". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 31 December 2012.

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Monday, October 05, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.