Aleksander Baldin

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Full nameAleksandr Baldin
National teamFlag of Estonia.svg  Estonia
Born (1984-08-31) 31 August 1984 (age 38)
Tallinn, Estonia
Height1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight80 kg (176 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Breaststroke
ClubSK Garant
CoachDmitri Kapelin

Aleksandr Baldin (born August 31, 1984) is an Estonian former swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events. [1] He is a 15-time long-course Estonian swimming champion in the breaststroke (50, 100, and 200), and a member of SK Garant in Tallinn, under the tutelage of his personal coach Dmitri Kapelin. Baldin also represented his nation Estonia in a breaststroke double at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Baldin qualified for two swimming events at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by eclipsing FINA B-standard entry times of 1:04.50 (100 m breaststroke) and 2:16.73 (200 m breaststroke) from the Russian Championships in Moscow. [2] [3] In the 100 m breaststroke, Baldin raced to seventh place and forty-ninth overall on the third heat by half a second (0.50) behind Cyprus' Kyriakos Dimosthenous in 1:06.04. [4] [5] In the 200 m breaststroke, Baldin challenged seven other swimmers on the same heat, including Olympic veterans Ratapong Sirisanont of Thailand and Daniel Málek of the Czech Republic. Baldin took a sixth spot in his heat by 0.43 of a second behind Malek in 2:17.90. Baldin failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-second overall in the preliminaries. [6] [7]

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