Dănilă Artiomov (born 16 October 1994 in

Tiraspol Tiraspol (, ; also /; , ; , ) is the capital and largest city of Transnistria, a breakaway state of Moldova, where it is the third-largest city. The city is located on the eastern bank of the Dniester River. Tiraspol is a regional hub of cul ...

) is a Moldovan swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events. Artiomov established a Moldovan record of 1:01.60 to earn a gold medal in the boys' 100 m breaststroke at the

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. Artiomov qualified for the men's 100 m breaststroke at the

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by eclipsing a FINA B-standard entry time of 1:02.30 from the Ukrainian Championships in

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. He challenged seven other swimmers on the second heat, including Olympic veterans Malick Fall of Senegal,

Vladislav Polyakov Vladislav Vitalyevich Polyakov (also ''Vlad Polyakov'', ; born 30 November 1983 in Petropavlovsk) is a Kazakhstani swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events. He swam for his native Kazakhstan at three Olympic Games (2004, 2008, and 2012), a ...

of Kazakhstan, and

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of Iceland. Artiomov rounded out the field to last place by nine hundredths of a second (0.09) behind Syria's Azad Al-Barazi in 1:03.57. Artiomov failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed fortieth overall in the preliminaries.

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NBC Olympics Profile
1994 births Living people Moldovan male breaststroke swimmers Olympic swimmers for Moldova Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Tiraspol 21st-century Moldovan sportsmen {{Moldova-swimming-bio-stub