Dănilă Artiomov
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Dănilă Artiomov (born 16 October 1994 in Tiraspol) is a Moldovan swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events. Artiomov established a Moldovan record of 1:01.60 to earn a gold medal in the boys' 100 m breaststroke at the
2012 European Junior Swimming Championships The 2012 European Junior Swimming Championships were held from 4–8 July 2012 in Antwerp, Belgium. The Championships were organized by LEN, the European Swimming League, and were held in a 50-meter pool. Per LEN rules, competitors have age 15 or 16 ...
in
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. Artiomov qualified for the men's 100 m breaststroke at the
2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...
in London by eclipsing a FINA B-standard entry time of 1:02.30 from the Ukrainian Championships in
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. He challenged seven other swimmers on the second heat, including Olympic veterans Malick Fall of Senegal,
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of Kazakhstan, and Jakob Jóhann Sveinsson of Iceland. Artiomov rounded out the field to last place by nine hundredths of a second (0.09) behind Syria's
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in 1:03.57. Artiomov failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed fortieth overall in the preliminaries.


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NBC Olympics Profile
1994 births Living people Moldovan male breaststroke swimmers Olympic swimmers for Moldova Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Tiraspol 21st-century Moldovan people {{Moldova-swimming-bio-stub