Pāvels Murāns

Pāvels Murāns (born June 19, 1985) is a Latvian former swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.[2] He is a member of Rīga Swimming School, and is coached and trained by Jeļena Solovjova.[1] Murans also had an opportunity to represent Latvia at the 2004 Summer Olympics, finishing fifty-first in the 100-metre breaststroke.

Pāvels Murāns
Personal information
Full namePāvels Murāns
National team Latvia
Born (1985-06-19) 19 June 1985
Rīga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union
Height1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight76 kg (168 lb)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesBreaststroke
ClubRīga Swimming School
CoachJeļena Solovjova[1]

Murans qualified for the men's 100 m breaststroke at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by eclipsing a FINA B-standard entry time of 1:04.95 from the Croatian Open Championships in Rijeka.[3][1] He challenged seven other swimmers on the second heat, including three-time Olympians Jean Luc Razakarivony of Madagascar and Yevgeny Petrashov of Kyrgyzstan. He cruised to fifth place by eight hundredths of a second (0.08) behind Raphael Matthew Chua of the Philippines in 1:06.45. Murans failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed fifty-first overall on the first day of preliminaries.[4][5]

References

  1. Vaiders, Arturs (17 July 2004). "Olimpietis no Šķirotavas" [Olympians on the yard] (in Latvian). Diena. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
  2. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Pāvels Murāns". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
  3. "Swimming – Men's 100m Breaststroke Startlist (Heat 2)" (PDF). Athens 2004. Omega Timing. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
  4. "Men's 100m Breaststroke Heat 2". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 14 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  5. Whitten, Phillip (14 August 2004). "Prelims, Men's 100 Breaststroke: Kitajima, Hansen Qualify One-Two; Japanese Sets Olympic Record". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
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