Artur Valeryevich Dilman (; born 29 August 1990) is a Kazakhstani swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and individual medley events. He represented his nation

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a European Kazakhstan, small portion in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the Kazakhstan–Russia border, north and west, China to th ...

at the

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, and has won a career total of six medals (two in each color) in a major international competition, spanning both the indoor and outdoor Asian Games. Dilman also spent his college sports career in the United States as a member of the

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swimming and diving team under head coach Brian Reynolds, while pursuing his sports management studies at

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. Dilman competed for the Kazakh swimming squad in the men's 200 m freestyle at the

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. Leading up to the Games, he snatched the top spot with a 1:52.42 to clear the invincible FINA B-cut (1:52.53) by 0.11 of a second at the Kazakhstan Open Championships in

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. Swimming in heat two, Dilman tried to hold on with Singapore's

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and Estonia's Vladimir Sidorkin heading into the 150-metre turn for the top three spots, but faded down the final stretch to finish with a fifth-place time in 1:52.90. Dilman failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed fifty-second overall out of fifty-eight swimmers in the prelims. On 17 June 2012, Dilman ordered a six-month suspension by the Kazakhstan Swimming Federation, after he was tested positive for a banned substance

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, following an in-competition doping test at the ENKA Open in

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. On 13 March 2013, Dilman helped out his college team

to claim their ninth consecutive title in the men's freestyle relay at the NCAA Division II Swimming Championships.

References

External links

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Profile – Kazakhstan Swimming Federation

Player Bio – Drury Panthers

1990 births Living people Kazakhstani male medley swimmers Olympic swimmers for Kazakhstan Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2010 Asian Games Kazakhstani male freestyle swimmers Swimmers from Almaty Drury Panthers men's swimmers Expatriate swimmers in the United States Asian Games bronze medalists for Kazakhstan Asian Games swimmers for Kazakhstan Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games 21st-century Kazakhstani sportsmen Asian Games bronze medalists in swimming {{Kazakhstan-swimming-bio-stub