Pāvels Murāns

Pāvels Murāns
Personal information
Full name	Pāvels Murāns
National team	Latvia
Born	19 June 1985 (age 36); Rīga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	76 kg (168 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Breaststroke
Club	Rīga Swimming School
Coach	Jeļena Solovjova

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.

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[]

^ ^a ^b ^c Vaiders, Arturs (17 July 2004). "Olimpietis no Šķirotavas" [Olympians on the yard] (in Latvian). Diena. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
^ 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.
^ "Swimming – Men's 100m Breaststroke Startlist (Heat 2)" (PDF). Athens 2004. Omega Timing. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
^ "Men's 100m Breaststroke Heat 2". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 14 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
^ 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.

External links[]

Profile – Latvian Olympic Committee (in Latvian)

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[pmurans-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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