Florian Janistyn

Swimmer, Olympic athlete

1988 –

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Who is Florian Janistyn?

Florian Janistyn is an Austrian swimmer, who specialized in long-distance freestyle events. 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.

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. 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.

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. Swimming the anchor leg, Janistyn recorded a time of 1:51.37, and the Austrian team went on to finish heat two again in eighth place and sixteenth overall, for a total time of 7:17.94.

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Born
Apr 22, 1988
Vienna
Also known as
  • Flo
Nationality
  • Austria
Profession
Lived in
  • Vienna

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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