Dmitri Balandin

Dmitri Balandin
Personal information
Surname:	Dmitri Balandin
Nation:	Kazakhstan
Swimming style (s) :	chest
Birthday:	April 4, 1995
Place of birth:	Almaty , Kazakhstan
Size:	1.95 m
Weight:	85 kg
Medal table
Olympic Summer Games 1 × 0 × 0 × Asian Games 3 × 0 × 0 × Universiade 1 × 0 × 1 ×

Dmitri Igorewitsch Balandin ( Kazakh Дмитрий Игоревич Баландин ; born April 4, 1995 in Almaty ) is a Kazakh swimmer who competes in breaststroke swimming.

Sporting development

Dmitri Balandin currently holds the Kazakh records in breaststroke 100 and 200 m.

At the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon , South Korea , Balandin won three gold medals in the 50, 100 and 200 m breaststroke, making him a historic success for Kazakhstan. In the 50 m competition, he also set a new record at the Asian Games with 27.87 seconds. He also succeeded in doing this over the 200 m with a new Asian record of 2.07.67 minutes.

At the 2015 Summer Universiade in Gwangju , South Korea , Balandin won gold over the 100 m breaststroke and bronze over the 50 m in the same discipline.

At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro , Balandin won the gold medal in the 200m breaststroke , making it the first Kazakh swimming medal ever.

The Kazakh post office honored Balandin with the issue of a special postage stamp.

Web links

• Dmitri Balandin on the website of the Swimming Federation of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gyuzel Kamalova: Kazakhstani swimmer Dmitriy Balandin wins 3 gold medals at Asian Games on tengrinews.kz, September 27, 2014. Accessed August 11, 2016.
2. ↑ Dmitriy Balandin Tops Tight 200 Breast Field; Earns Kazakhstan's First Ever Swimming Gold Medal swimmingworldmagazine.com, August 10, 2016. Retrieved August 11, 2016.