Stanislav Kuzmin

Who is Stanislav Kuzmin?

Stanislav Kuzmin is a Kazakhstani swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle and butterfly events. He is a multiple-time national record holder and a five-time medalist for the freestyle, butterfly, and relay swimming events at the 2009 Asian Indoor Games in Hanoi, Vietnam. He also won a bronze medal, as a member of the Kazakhstan swimming team, in the 4×100 m medley relay at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China.

Kuzmin qualified for the men's 50 m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 23.09 from the Kazakhstan Open Championships in Almaty. He challenged seven other swimmers on the seventh heat, including two-time Olympians Joshua Laban of the Virgin Islands, and Jevon Atkinson of Jamaica. Kuzmin edged out Atkinson to take a fifth spot by eight hundredths of a second, posting his personal best of 22.91 seconds. Kuzmin failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed forty-eighth out of 97 swimmers in the preliminaries.

Kuzmin is currently playing for the Drury Panthers swimming and diving team under head coach Brian Reynolds, and also, a sports management major at the Drury University in Springfield, Missouri.