Daniil Markov (swimmer)

Daniil Dmitrievich Markov (born 21 April 2000) is a Russian competitive swimmer.

As a member of preliminaries relays he won three medals at the 2021 World Short Course Championships and two medals across the 2019 and 2021 European Short Course Championships.

Markov was born 21 April 2000 in Russia.

He competes for the Novosibirsk Oblast and Krasnoyarsk Krai regions in Russian competitions.

For his next event, the 100 metre butterfly, Markov swam a personal best time of 53.91 seconds in the prelims heats before placing 13th overall in the semifinals with a time of 54.07 seconds.

Day three of competition, Markov ranked first in the semifinals of the 50 metre freestyle with a time of 22.30 seconds and qualified for the final.

Following his semifinals performance, Markov won a gold medal in the 4×100 metre freestyle relay with finals relay members Kliment Kolesnikov, Vladislav Gerasimenko, and Andrei Minakov in a time of 3:18.11.

On day four, Markov won his first individual medal of the Youth Olympic Games in the 50 metre freestyle, placing second and winning the silver medal in a time of 22.37 seconds, which was just 0.04 seconds slower than gold medalist Thomas Ceccon of Italy.

Later in the day, Markov won a gold medal and set a world junior record in the 4×100 metre medley relay at 3:35.17, splitting a 49.19 for the freestyle leg of the relay.

The fifth day of competition, Markov won a silver medal in the 50 metre butterfly, finishing second with a time of 23.63 seconds, which was 0.01 seconds behind gold medalist Andrei Minakov and a time Tomoe Hvas tied by finishing at the exact same time, resulting in both Markov and Tomoe Hvas earning silver medals.

Earlier on day five he competed in the 100 metre freestyle prelims heats, placing seventh overall with a time of 50.60 seconds, qualifying for the semifinals and choosing to withdraw from competition following the prelims stage of competition.

On the sixth and final day, Markov competed in his eighth event and won his sixth medal, contributing to the silver medal win in the 4×100 metre mixed medley relay by swimming the butterfly leg of the relay in the prelims and helping qualify the relay to the final ranked third, he won a silver medal when the finals relay finished second in a time of 3:51.46.

In the 50 metre butterfly, he won the silver medal at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics and the bronze medal at the 2018 European Junior Swimming Championships.

He is a former world junior record holder in the 4×100 metre medley relay.

At the 2018 European Junior Swimming Championships in Helsinki, Finland in July, Markov swam a personal best time in the 100 metres of freestyle he swam leading off the 4×100 metre freestyle relay in the prelims on day one of competition, 4 July, with a time of 49.44 seconds.

In the final of the event later the same day, he helped the finals relay team achieve a gold-medal-winning time of 3:18.21 by splitting a 50.12 for the lead-off leg of the relay.

In the final of the 50 metre butterfly during the same finals session as the 4×100 metre freestyle relay final, Markov won the bronze medal with a time of 23.77 seconds, finishing just 0.21 seconds behind gold medalist Andrei Minakov, also of Russia, and 0.09 seconds after silver medalist Tomoe Hvas of Norway.

Markov won his third and final medal of the Championships on the last day of competition, anchoring the 4×100 metre medley relay with a time of 49.45 seconds for his 100 metre portion of freestyle and finishing the relay at a time of 3:35.58 to win the gold medal along with relay teammates Kliment Kolesnikov, Vladislav Gerasimenko, and Andrei Minakov.

Gaining addition racing experience after the European Junior Championships and before the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics, Markov competed at the 2018 Swimming World Cup stop in Kazan at the Palace of Water Sports and conducted in long course metres.

In the prelims heats of the 50 metre freestyle, Markov qualified for the final ranking eighth with a time of 23.10 seconds.

In the final, he swam the 50 metres of freestyle in 23.11 seconds to place eighth.

For the 4×100 metre freestyle relay the next day, Markov split 50.54 seconds for the second leg of the relay, helping it achieve a time of 3:30.94 and win the silver medal in the event.

On the first day of the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Markov won his first gold medal in the 4×100 metre mixed freestyle relay for his efforts in the prelims heats, where he swam a 50.28 for the lead-off leg of the relay to qualify the relay to the final ranked eighth.

In the 50 metre freestyle, he won the bronze medal at the 2019 Summer Universiade and the silver medal at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.

On 4 July 2019, at the 2019 World University Games conducted at Piscina Felice Scandone in Naples, Italy, Markov ranked sixth in the semifinals of the 50 metre butterfly with a time of 23.78 seconds, qualifying for the final the next day.

In the final of the 50 metre butterfly on 5 July, he placed sixth with a time of 23.91 seconds.

Four days later, Markov tied for eighth placed in the semifinals of the 50 metre freestyle and had to compete in a swim-off where he and the person he tied, Cameron Kidd of Canada, raced each other and the faster swimmer, Markov with a time of 22.23 seconds, qualified for the final of the event.

Come the final of the event the following day, 10 July, Markov won the bronze medal in the event with a time of 22.39 seconds.

At the Tollcross International Swimming Centre in Glasgow, Scotland on 4 December for the 2019 European Short Course Swimming Championships, Markov swum the second leg of the 4×50 metre freestyle relay in a time of 21.36 seconds in the prelims heats, helping advance the relay to the final of the event ranking first at 1:25.07.

When the Russia finals relay, which did not include Markov, finished first in the final of the event with a time of 1:22.92, all the Russia relay team swimmers in the prelims and the final won a gold medal for their contributions to the win.

On the first day of the 2021 Swimming World Cup stop in Kazan, 28 October, Markov qualified for the final of the 50 metre freestyle ranked sixth with a time of 21.51 seconds from the prelims heats.

In the final of the 50 metre freestyle the same day, he placed fifth in 21.40 seconds.

The next day, Markov swam a personal best time of 47.18 seconds in the prelims heats of the 100 metre freestyle, advancing to the final of the event ranked sixth.

For the final he placed eighth, finishing in a time of 47.81 seconds.

Later in the same finals session, Markov led-off the 4×50 metre mixed freestyle relay in a time of 21.62 seconds in the final to help attain a gold medal victory in a time of 1:33.73.

Day three, the final day of competition, Markov advanced to the final of the 50 metre butterfly with his time of 22.87 seconds in the prelims heats.

Markov placed fourth in the final, swimming a time of 22.57 seconds and finishing less than a quarter of a second behind the bronze medalist in the event, Kyle Chalmers of Australia.

In his final event, Markov won a silver medal in the final of the 4×50 metre mixed medley relay, splitting a time of 21.30 seconds for the freestyle leg of the relay to contribute to the total time of 1:40.83.

In the prelims of the 4×50 metre medley relay event at the 2021 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Kazan, Markov split a 22.48 for the butterfly leg of the relay, helping qualify the Russia relay to the final ranked first with a time of 1:32.69.

For the finals relay, Vladimir Morozov substituted in for Markov for the butterfly leg and when the finals relay placed second with a time of 1:30.79 all prelims and finals relay team members, including Markov, won a silver medal for their efforts.