Florian Janistyn

Florian Janistyn
Personal information
Nationality  Austria
Born (1988-04-22) 22 April 1988
Vienna, Austria
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight 77 kg (170 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
Club SG Wiener Neustadt[1]
Coach Erich Neulinger[1]

Florian Janistyn (born April 22, 1988 in Vienna) is an Austrian swimmer, who specialized in long-distance freestyle events.[1][2] He is a two-time Austrian national record holder in both 800 and 1500 m freestyle, and also, a current member of SG Wiener Neustadt, under his personal coach Erich Neulinger.[1][3]

Janistyn made his official debut at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed in two freestyle events. He swam on the second leg of the men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay, posting his split time of 1:50.48. Janistyn and his teammates Dominik Koll, Markus Rogan, and David Brandl finished heat two in fifth place and ninth overall, for a total time of 7:11.45.[4] Three days later, Janistyn won the first heat of his only individual event, 1500 m freestyle, by sixteen seconds ahead of Bulgarian swimmer and three-time Olympian Petar Stoychev, breaking a new Austrian record time of 15:12.46. Janistyn, however, failed to advance into the final, as he placed twenty-first out of 37 swimmers in the evening's preliminaries.[5]

Four years after competing in his first Olympics, Janistyn qualified only for the men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.[6] Swimming the anchor leg, Janistyn recorded a time of 1:51.37, and the Austrian team (composed of Rogan, Brandl, and Christian Scherübl) went on to finish heat two again in eighth place and sixteenth overall, for a total time of 7:17.94.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Florian Janistyn". London 2012. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
  2. ↑ "Florian Janistyn". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
  3. ↑ "Austrian Long Course Nationals: Several More Austrian Standards Tumble". Swimming World Magazine. 1 March 2009. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
  4. ↑ "Men's 4×200m Freestyle Relay Heat 2". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
  5. ↑ "Men's 1500m Freestyle Heat 1". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
  6. ↑ "Qualifying Athletes – Men's relays" (PDF). FINA. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
  7. ↑ "Men's 4×200m Freestyle Relay Heat 2". London 2012. Retrieved 22 January 2013.

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