Pavel Lagoun, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Pavel Lagoun

Olympic swimmer

Date of Birth: 12-Feb-1979

Place of Birth: Minsk, Belarus

Profession: swimmer

Nationality: Belarus

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Pavel Lagoun

  • Pavel Mikalaievich Lagoun (Belarusian: ????? ?????????? ?????; born February 12, 1979) is a Belarusian former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events.
  • 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.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.
  • He challenged seven other swimmers on the fifth heat, including top medal favorite Milorad Cavic 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.

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