National team Belarus Strokes Freestyle, butterfly Sport Swimming | Weight 74 kg (163 lb) Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) Name Pavel Lagoun | |
Full name Pavel Mikalaievich Lagoun Born 12 February 1979 (age 45) ( 1979-02-12 ) Minsk, Belarusian SSR, Soviet Union | ||
Pavel Mikalaievich Lagoun (Belarusian: Павел Мікалаевіч Лагун; born February 12, 1979) is a Belarusian former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events. He is a two-time Olympian (2000 and 2004), and a three-time medalist at the FINA World Cup.
Lagoun made his first Belarusian team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he placed tenth in the 4×100 m freestyle (3:20.85), and twelfth in the 4×200 m freestyle (7:24.83), as a member of the Belarusian swimming team.
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Lagoun qualified as an individual swimmer for the men's 100 m butterfly. He cleared a FINA B-standard entry time of 53.66 from the European Championships in Madrid, Spain. He challenged seven other swimmers on the fifth heat, including top medal favorite Milorad Čavić of Serbia and Montenegro. He raced to fifth place by 0.24 of a second behind France's Frédérick Bousquet in 53.87. Lagoun failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed twenty-sixth overall in the preliminaries.