Dmitri Kuzmin, Date of Birth

    

Dmitri Kuzmin

Olympic swimmer

Date of Birth: 09-Sep-1977

Profession: swimmer

Nationality: Kyrgyzstan

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Dmitri Kuzmin

  • Dmitri Kuzmin (Russian: ??????? ???????; born September 9, 1977) is a Russian-born Kyrgyz former swimmer, who specialized in middle-distance freestyle events.
  • He is a single-time Olympian (2000), and a former Kyrgyzstan record holder in the 200 and 400 m freestyle.
  • While playing for the Russian senior team, Kuzmin also earned a bronze medal, along with Maksim Korsunov, Dmitry Chernyshov, and Andrey Kapralov, in the 4×200 m freestyle relay at the 1999 European Aquatics Championships in Istanbul, Turkey. Kuzmin competed in three swimming events at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
  • He cleared a FINA B-standard of 1:51.90 from the Russian National Championships in Moscow.
  • On the first day of the Games, Kuzmin teamed up with Alexei Pavlov, Konstantin Ushkov, and another Russian import Sergey Ashihmin in the 4×100 m freestyle relay.
  • Kuzmin swam the third leg in heat two and recorded a split of 50.61, but the Kyrgyz rounded out an eight-team field to last place and twentieth overall with a final time of 3:25.03.
  • In the 200 m freestyle, Kuzmin placed twenty-eighth on the morning prelims.
  • Swimming in heat four, Kuzmin edged out Moldova's Andrei Cecan to take a fifth spot by three-tenths of a second (0.30) in 1:52.93.
  • Two days later, in the 4×200 m freestyle relay, Kuzmin, along with Andrei Pakin, Aleksandr Shilin, and Ivan Ivanov, were disqualified from heat one for an early takeoff during the lead-off leg.

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