Danil Haustov (born 13 December 1980) is an Estonian former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. He set an Estonian record of 1:27.06, as a relay swimmer, in the 4×50 m freestyle at the

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. Haustov is also a member of Kohtla-Järve Water Sport Club in

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, and is coached and trained by Aleksandr Abel. Haustov made his first Estonian team at the

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. He qualified for two swimming events by attaining B-standard entry times of 23.08 (50 m freestyle) and 50.42 (100 m freestyle). In the

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, Haustov raced to sixth place on the fifth heat and thirty-fifth overall by 0.35 of a second behind Finland's

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in a time of 51.02. In his second event, 50 m freestyle, Haustov set his personal best of 23.52 seconds, but rounded out the sixth heat to last place and forty-ninth overall by 0.02 of a second behind Chinese Taipei's Wang Shao-an. At the

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, Haustov qualified for the second time in the

by clearing a FINA B-cut of 50.37 from the

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. He challenged seven other swimmers on the fourth heat, including Kenya's

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and Papua New Guinea's

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, both of whom later reached the butterfly final. Haustov rounded out the field to last place by 0.18 of a second behind Romania's

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in 50.92 seconds, just a tenth of a second off his time set in Athens. Haustov failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed fifty-first out of 64 swimmers in the prelims.

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* * * * * 1980 births Living people Estonian male freestyle swimmers Olympic swimmers for Estonia Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Swimmers from Moscow Sportspeople from Kohtla-Järve Estonian people of Russian descent 21st-century Estonian people {{Estonia-swimming-bio-stub