Veniamin Tayanovich

Veniamin Tayanovich
Medal record

Men's swimming
Competitor for the Unified Team
Olympic Games
	1992 Barcelona	4×200 m freestyle
	1992 Barcelona	4×100 m freestyle
World Championships (LC)
Competitor for the Soviet Union
	1991 Perth	4x100 m medley
	1991 Perth	4×100 m freestyle
European Championships
Competitor for the Soviet Union
	1991 Athens	4×100 m freestyle
	1991 Athens	4×200 m freestyle
	1987 Strasbourg	4×100 m freestyle

Veniamin Tayanovich (Russian: Вениамин Таянович; born April 6, 1967) is a retired Russian freestyle swimmer.

Tayanovich is best known for winning the gold medal in the Men's 4x200m Freestyle event at the 1992 Summer Olympics at Barcelona, alongside Vladimir Pyshnenko, Dmitry Lepikov, Aleksey Kudryavtsev (heats), Yury Mukhin (heats) and Yevgeny Sadovyi. At the same Olympic Games he also claimed the silver medal with the 4x100m freestyle team, swimming in the qualifying heats.

References

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Olympic Champions in Men's 4×200 m Freestyle Relay

1908: Great Britain (Derbyshire, Radimilovic, Foster, Taylor)
1912: Australasia (Healy, Champion, Boardman, Hardwick)
1920: USA (McGillivray, Kealoha, Ross, Kahanamoku)
1924: USA (Weissmuller, O'Connor, Glancy, Breyer)
1928: USA (Weissmuller, Clapp, Laufer, Kojac)
1932: Japan (Yusa, Miyazaki, Yokoyama, Toyoda)
1936: Japan (Yusa, Sugiura, Arai, Taguchi)
1948: USA (Ris, McLane, Wolf, Smith)
1952: USA (Moore, Woolsey, Konno, McLane)
1956: Australia (O'Halloran, Devitt, Rose, Henricks)
1960: USA (Harrison, Blick, Troy, Farrell)
1964: USA (Schollander, Clark, Saari, Ilman)
1968: USA (Schollander, Spitz, Nelson, Rerych)
1972: USA (Spitz, Kinsella, Tyler, Genter)
1976: USA (Bruner, Furniss, Naber, Montgomery)
1980: Soviet Union (Koplyakov, Salnikov, Stukolkin, Krylov)
1984: USA (Heath, Larson, Float, Hayes)
1988: USA (Dalbey, Cetlinski, Gjertsen, Biondi)
1992: Unified Team (Lepikov, Pyshnenko, Tayanovich, Sadovyi)
1996: USA (Davis, Hudepohl, Schumacher, Berube)
2000: Australia (Thorpe, Klim, Pearson, Kirby)
2004: USA (Phelps, Lochte, Vanderkaay, Keller)
2008: USA (Phelps, Lochte, Berens, Vanderkaay)
2012: USA (Lochte, Dwyer, Berens, Phelps)

European Champions in Men's 4×100 m Freestyle Relay

1962: France (Gottvallès, Curtillet, Christophe, Gropaiz)
1966: East Germany (Wiegand, Poser, Gregor, Sommer)
1970: Soviet Union (Bure, Mazanov, Kulikov, Ilyichov)
1974: West Germany (Steinbach, Schiller, Meier, Nocke)
1977: West Germany (Steinbach, Schmidt, Könnecker, Nocke)
1981: Soviet Union (Shemetov, Salnikov, Chayev, Koplyakov)
1983: Soviet Union (Smiryagin, Krasyuk, Tkacenko, Markovsky)
1985: West Germany (Schowtka, Fahrner, Korthals, Gross)
1987: East Germany (Richter, Flemming, Zesner, Lodziewski)
1989: West Germany (Sitt, Schadt, Zikarsky, Zikarsky)
1991: Soviet Union (Khnykin, Prigoda, Tayanovich, Popov)
1993: Russia (Predkin, Pyshnenko, Sadovyi, Popov)
1995: Russia (Predkin, Shchegolev, Yegorov, Popov)
1997: Russia (Popov, Yegorov, Pimankov, Pyshnenko)
1999: Netherlands (Kenkhuis, Veens, Wouda, Van den Hoogenband)
2000: Russia (Pimankov, Chernyshov, Kapralov, Popov)
2002: Germany (Conrad, Herbst, Spanneberg, Kunzelmann)
2004: Italy (Vismara, Galenda, Vassanelli, Magnini)
2006: Italy (Calvi, Galenda, Vismara, Magnini)
2008: Sweden (Piehl, Nystrand, Stymne, Persson)
2010: Russia (Lagunov, Grechin, Lobintsev, Izotov)
2012: France (Leveaux, Bernard, Bousquet, Stravius)
2014: France (Metella, Gilot, Manaudou, Stravius)

European Champions in Men's 4×200 m Freestyle Relay

1926: Germany (Heitmann, Rademacher, Berges, Heinrich)
1927: Germany (Heitmann, Rademacher, Berges, Heinrich)
1931: Hungary (Wanié, Szabados, Székely, Bárány)
1934: Hungary (Gróf, Maróthy, Csik, Lengyel)
1938: Germany (Birr, Heimlich, Freese, Plath)
1947: Sweden (Olsson, Lundén, Östrand, Johansson)
1950: Sweden (Sjunnerholm, Östrand, Johansson, Larsson)
1954: Hungary (Till, Dömötör, Kádas, Nyéki)
1958: Soviet Union (Nikolayev, Struzhanov, Luzhkovsky, Nikitin)
1962: Sweden (Rosendahl, Lindberg, Svensson, Bengtsson)
1966: Soviet Union (Ilyichov, Belits-Geiman, Pletnev, Novikov)
1970: West Germany (Lampe, Von Schilling, Meeuw, Fassnacht)
1974: West Germany (Steinbach, Lampe, Meeuw, Nocke)
1977: Soviet Union (Raskatov, Rusin, Koplyakov, Krylov)
1981: Soviet Union (Shemetov, Salnikov, Chayev, Koplyakov)
1983: West Germany (Fahrner, Schowtka, Schmidt, Gross)
1985: West Germany (Schowtka, Gross, Schadt, Fahrner)
1987: West Germany (Sitt, Henkel, Fahrner, Gross)
1989: Italy (Trevisan, Gleria, Lamberti, Battistelli)
1991: Soviet Union (Lepikov, Pyshnenko, Tayanovich, Sadovyi)
1993: Russia (Lepikov, Pyshnenko, Mukin, Sadovyi)
1995: Germany (Keller, Lampe, Spanneberg, Zesner)
1997: Great Britain (Palmer, Clayton, Meadows, Salter)
1999: Germany (Keller, Pohl, Conrad, Kiedel)
2000: Italy (Rosolino, Pelliciari, Cercato, Brembilla)
2002: Italy (Pelliciari, Brembilla, Cappellazzo, Rosolino)
2004: Italy (Brembilla, Pelliciari, Rosolino, Magnini)
2006: Italy (Rosolino, Berbotto, Cassio, Magnini)
2008: Italy (Brembilla, Rosolino, Cassio, Magnini)
2010: Russia (Lobintsev, Izotov, Perunin, Sukhorukov)
2012: Germany (Biedermann, Colupaev, Rapp, Wallburger)
2014: Germany (Backhaus, Lebherz, Rapp, Biedermann)

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