Denis Pankratov

Quick Facts

Full Name	Denis Pankratov
Occupation	Swimmer
Date Of Birth	Jul 4, 1974(1974-07-04)
Age	50
Birthplace	Volgograd
Country	Russia
Birth City	Volgograd Oblast
Horoscope	Cancer

Denis Pankratov Biography

Denis Pankratov is one of the most popular and richest Swimmer who was born on July 4, 1974 in Volgograd, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. Swimmer who was a specialist in the butterfly. She took two gold medals at the 200-meter and 100-meter butterfly events at 1996’s Summer Olympics.

Olympic figure-skating champion Olympic figure skater Evgeni Plushenko also grew up in Volgograd. was also born in Volgograd.

At the age of 16, in 1990 and again in 1991, he won the Junior European Championships in the butterfly. In his first international appearance at senior level, he placed 6th in the final of the 200 m butterfly at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. In 1993, at the European Championships in Sheffield, Pankratov won his first international medals, with gold medals in the 200 m butterfly and 4×100 m medley relay and a silver medal in the 100 m butterfly. He repeated this performance in the 1995 European Championships in Vienna, this time winning all three gold medals and breaking Pablo Morales’s nine-year-old 100 m butterfly world record with a time of 52.32. He held the 100 m butterfly world record for over two years, until it was broken by Michael Klim.

At the 1994 World Championships in Rome, Pankratov swam head-to-head with all the best swimmers of the world. He won the 200 m butterfly, placed second in the 4×100 m medley relay and third in the 100 m butterfly. This competition established Pankratov as the leading butterflier in the world and two years later in Atlanta, at the 1996 Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals, one each in the 100 m and 200 m butterfly and a silver medal in the 4×100 m medley with his Russian teammates. His 100 m butterfly victory was another world record of 52.27 s, breaking his own record set the previous year. Uniquely, he won the 100 m butterfly by swimming more than 25 m of the first lap underwater and then 15 m in the opposite direction, also underwater. His submarine technique caused a rule change to restrict butterfly swimmers to 15 m underwater (humans swim slower than the speed which they gain from diving and gliding and bouncing off the walls), in line with the other strokes.

He was raised at Volgograd, Russia.

Denis Pankratov Net Worth

Denis Pankratov is one of the richest Swimmer from Russia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Denis Pankratov 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was the winner of his first Junior European Championships in the butterfly in both 1990 and 1991.

He was a participant at 2000 in 2000 Olympics but did not win a medal.

Denis Pankratov (Russian: Денис Панкратов ; born 4 July 1974) is a retired Russian butterfly swimmer of the 1990s, who was best known for winning the butterfly double at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States in a unique style. His 100 m butterfly triumph is particularly remembered for his swimming over 25 m of the first lap underwater and then 15 m in the opposite direction, also underwater. He trained at the Volgograd club with fellow individual gold medallist at Swimming World World Swimmer of the Year Yevgeny Sadovyi.

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Denis Ranked on the list of most popular Swimmer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Russia. Denis Pankratov celebrates birthday on July 4 of every year.