Vyacheslav Vladimirovich Titarenko ( kk, Вячеслав Владимирович Титаренко; born June 8, 1978) is a Kazakh former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. He is a single-time Olympian (2004), and a top 16 finalist in the

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at the

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(58.22). Titarenko qualified for the men's 100 m freestyle, as Kazakhstan's oldest swimmer (aged 26), at the

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in Athens. He achieved a FINA B-standard of 51.91 from the Kazakhstan Open Championships in

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. He challenged seven other swimmers in heat three, including five-time Olympian

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of Fiji. He raced to sixth place in 52.09, just 0.18 of a second off his entry time. Titarenko failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed fifty-first overall out of 71 swimmers in the preliminaries.

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