ATAYEV Merdan

Olympic Games

Year	Location	100Back
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	H (56.34)

World Championships

Year	Location	50Back	100Back
2019	Gwangju, KOR	H (25.84)	H (55.34)
2015	Kazan, RUS	H (26.64)	H (57.57)

Asian Games

Year	Location	50Back	100Back
2018	Indonesia	8th (25.88)	H (56.20)

Asian Championships

Year	Location	50Back	100Back
2016	Tokyo, JPN	8th (26.00)	8th (55.94)

World Championships Short Course

Year	Location	50Back	100Back
2018	Hangzhou, CHN	H (25.30)	H (54.29)

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

Athlete

Coaching - National Institute of Sports and Tourism of Turkmenistan, Ashgabat, TKM

Russian, Turkmen

Ashgabat School of Supreme Sports Skill [Turkmenistan]

Sergey Yepifanov [national], TKM

2014 for Turkmenistan, in Istanbul, Turkey (Athlete, 17 Sep 2014)

He began swimming in 2005 in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. (Athlete, 17 Sep 2014)

His father took him to a swimming pool. (Athlete, 17 Sep 2014; Athlete, 02 Aug 2016)

US swimmer Aaron Peirsol. (Athlete, 02 Aug 2016)

His parents. (Athlete, 02 Aug 2016)

"Citius, altius, fortius." (Athlete, 02 Aug 2016)

He was Turkmenistan's flag bearer for the closing ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (ashgabat2017.com, 24 Sep 2017)

He has received the title of Master of Sport of International Class in Turkmenistan. (turkmenistan.gov.tm, 18 Apr 2021)