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Place of Birth: Tallinn, Estonia
About Aleksander Baldin
- Aleksandr Baldin (born August 31, 1984) is an Estonian former swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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