| Pavel Lagoun | |
| Fullname: | Pavel Mikalaievich Lahun |
| Strokes: | Freestyle, butterfly |
| Club: | RTsFVS Minsk |
| Birth Date: | 12 February 1979 |
| Birth Place: | Minsk, Belarusian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Height: | 1.830NaN0 |
| Weight: | 740NaN0 |
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Pavel Mikalayevich Lahun (Belarusian: Павел Мікалаевіч Лагун; born 12 February 1979) is a Belarusian former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events.[1] 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.[2] [3]
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.[4] [5] 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.[6] [7]