Florian Janistyn

Florian Janistyn (born April 22, 1988) is an Austrian swimmer, who specializes 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]

Florian Janistyn
Personal information
Full nameFlorian Janistyn
National team Austria
Born (1988-04-22) 22 April 1988
Vienna, Austria
Height1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight77 kg (170 lb)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesFreestyle
ClubSG Wiener Neustadt[1]
CoachErich Neulinger[1]

Janistyn made his first Austrian team at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, swimming in both long-distance freestyle and freestyle relay team events. He swam on the second leg of the men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay, posting a 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, with a total time of 7:11.45.[4] Three days later, Janistyn won the first heat of his only individual event, the 1500 m freestyle, by sixteen seconds ahead of Bulgarian swimmer and three-time Olympian Petar Stoychev, with 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 only qualified for the men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.[6] Swimming the anchor leg, Janistyn recorded a split time of 1:51.37, and the Austrian team (composed of Rogan, Brandl, and Christian Scherübl) went on to finish in eighth place and sixteenth overall, for a total time of 7:17.94.[7]

References
  1. "Florian Janistyn". London 2012. Archived from the original on October 31, 2012. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
  2. "Florian Janistyn". Archived from the original on December 13, 2012. Retrieved July 21, 2012.
  3. "Austrian Long Course Nationals: Several More Austrian Standards Tumble". Swimming World Magazine. March 1, 2009. Archived from the original on February 16, 2013. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
  4. "Men's 4×200m Freestyle Relay Heat 2". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on August 21, 2012. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
  5. "Men's 1500m Freestyle Heat 1". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on August 21, 2012. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
  6. "Qualifying Athletes – Men's relays" (PDF). FINA. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 16, 2012. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
  7. "Men's 4×200m Freestyle Relay Heat 2". London 2012. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
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