Pavel Lagoun

Pavel Lagoun
Personal information
Full name Pavel Mikalaievich Lagoun
National team  Belarus
Born (1979-02-12) 12 February 1979
Minsk, Belarusian SSR, Soviet Union
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 74 kg (163 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle, butterfly
Club RTsFVS Minsk

Pavel Mikalaievich Lagoun (Belarusian: Павел Мікалаевіч Лагун; born February 12, 1979) is a Belarusian former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events.[1] He is a two-time Olympian (2000 and 2004), and a three-time medalist at the FINA World Cup.

Lagoun made his first Belarusian team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he placed tenth in the 4×100 m freestyle (3:20.85), and twelfth in the 4×200 m freestyle (7:24.83), as a member of the Belarusian swimming team.[2][3]

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Lagoun qualified as an individual swimmer for the men's 100 m butterfly. He cleared a FINA B-standard entry time of 53.66 from the European Championships in Madrid, Spain.[4][5] He challenged seven other swimmers on the fifth heat, including top medal favorite Milorad Čavić of Serbia and Montenegro. He raced to fifth place by 0.24 of a second behind France's Frédérick Bousquet in 53.87. Lagoun failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed twenty-sixth overall in the preliminaries.[6][7]

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