BALANDIN Dmitriy

Olympic Games

Year	Location	100Breast	200Breast
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	8th (59.95)	1st (2:07.46)

World Championships

Year	Location	50Breast	100Breast	200Breast	4x100Medley M
2019	Gwangju, KOR	H (27.36)	7th (59.14)	7th (2:08.25)	H (3:38.13)
2017	Budapest, HUN	H (27.74)	H (1:00.25)	SF (2:09.69)	-
2015	Kazan, RUS	SF (27.24)	4th (59.42)	6th (2:09.58)	-
2013	Barcelona, ESP	-	H (1:01.58)	H (2:13.53)	-

Asian Games

Year	Location	50Breast	100Breast	4x100Medley M
2018	Indonesia	3rd (27.46)	3rd (59.39)	3rd (3:35.62)

Champions Swim Series overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2019

Year	100Breast	200Breast	4x100Medley
2020	2 x 3rd	1 x 3rd, 1 x 4th	-
2019	-	1 x 2nd, 1 x 3rd, 1 x 4th	2 x 3rd

Champions Swim Series - Ten best performances since 2019

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
2	2019	200m Breaststroke	Indianapolis, IN, USA	2:10.02
3	2020	100m Breaststroke	Beijing, CHN	1:00.00
3	2020	100m Breaststroke	Shenzhen, CHN	1:00.55
3	2020	200m Breaststroke	Shenzhen, CHN	2:13.58
3	2019	200m Breaststroke	Budapest, HUN	2:10.73
3	2019	4 x 100m Medley Relay	Budapest, HUN	3:48.43
3	2019	4 x 100m Medley Relay	Guangzhou, CHN	3:49.03
4	2020	200m Breaststroke	Beijing, CHN	2:12.36
4	2019	200m Breaststroke	Guangzhou, CHN	2:09.37

Legend
Free - Freestyle, Back - Backstroke, Breast - Breaststroke, Fly - Butterfly, IndMed - Individual Medley, SF - Semifinal, H - Heats, DNS - Did Not Start, M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed, DSQ - Disqualified, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not swim in final

Dima (Athlete, 25 Sep 2014)

Snowboarding, playing football, going to the cinema. (olympic.kz, 25 Apr 2020; sportreview.kz, 09 Feb 2018)

Athlete

Physical Education, Sport Studies - Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, KAZ

Partner Kristina Tynybayeva

Russian

Dynamo [Kazakhstan]

Alexei Kazakov [personal], KAZ, from 2010

His partner Kristina Tynybayeva has represented Kazakhstan in artistic swimming and won bronze in the combination event at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, Republic of Korea. (prosports.kz, 10 Oct 2017)

2012 for Kazakhstan, Asian Championships in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (Athlete, 25 Sep 2014)

He suffered an ankle injury in 2018. He was able to compete at the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia, however he skipped the 200m breaststroke. (reuters.com, 22 Aug 2018; thestar.com.my, 21 Aug 2018)

He cut his foot during a warm-up before a 200m breaststroke event at the 2017 Short Course Cup of Kazakhstan and could not continue in the competition. (sports.kz, 15 Nov 2017)

A shoulder injury forced him to miss the 2014 World Short Course Championships in Doha, Qatar. (time.kz, 08 Jan 2015)

In January 2013 he slipped and tore ligaments in his right knee, which required him to undergo surgery. He started training again in February 2014. (Athlete, 25 Sep 2014; azattyq.org, 28 Oct 2014; time.kz, 08 Jan 2015; informburo.kz, 06 Aug 2015)

He began training in swimming at age 12 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. (Athlete, 25 Sep 2014; azattyq.org, 28 Oct 2014)

His parents took him to a swimming pool when he was about age five so that he could learn to swim. He was then noticed by coaches who suggested he try the sport professionally. (olympic.kz, 25 Apr 2020; Athlete, 25 Sep 2014)

To win gold at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (sportreview.kz, 09 Feb 2018)

Winning gold in 200m breaststroke at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (olympic.kz, 19 Jun 2020)

Spanish footballer Iker Casillas, Kazakhstani swimmer Vladislav Polyakov. (Athlete, 25 Sep 2014; time.kz, 08 Jan 2015)

His coach Alexei Kazakov, and his parents. (olympic.kz, 25 Apr 2020)

"Nothing is impossible." (Athlete, 25 Sep 2014)

He was named the 2016 Best Athlete of Kazakhstan in the framework of the People's Favourite national award. (inform.kz, 14 Jan 2017)

He has received the title of Honoured Master of Sport in Kazakhstan. (shooting-sports.kz, 18 Dec 2019)