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

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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