Florian Janistyn

Florian Janistyn
Personal information
Full nameFlorian Janistyn
National team Austria
Born (1988-04-22) 22 April 1988 (age 36)
Vienna, Austria
Height1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight77 kg (170 lb)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesFreestyle
ClubSG Wiener Neustadt[1]
CoachErich Neulinger[1]

Florian Janistyn (born 22 April 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]

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. ^ a b c d "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. Archived from the original on December 8, 2012. Retrieved January 22, 2013.


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