{{Short description|Uzbek swimmer (born 1988)}} {{Infobox swimmer | name = Danil Bugakov | image = <!-- Only free-content images are allowed for depicting living people -- see WP:NONFREE. --> | image_size = <!-- Only for images narrower than 220 pixels --> | caption = | fullname = Danil Bugakov | nicknames = The Bullet (Patrone) | national_team = {{UZB}} | strokes = Freestyle, backstroke, medley | club = Wasserfreunde 98 (GER) | coach = Frank Lamodke (GER)<br>Natalya Obuhova | collegeteam = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1988|1|29|df=yes}} | birth_place = Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union | death_date = | death_place = | height = {{convert|1.88|m|ftin|0|abbr=on}} | weight = {{convert|69|kg|lb|0|abbr=on}} | medaltemplates= {{MedalSport | Men's swimming}} {{MedalCountry|Uzbekistan}} {{MedalCompetition|Asian Championships}} {{MedalSilver|2006 Singapore| 4×100 m freestyle }} {{MedalBronze|2006 Singapore| 50 m backstroke }} {{MedalBronze|2009 Foshan| 50 m backstroke }} {{MedalBronze|2009 Foshan| 4×100 m freestyle }} | show-medals = yes | updated = }}
'''Danil Bugakov''' ({{langx|uz|Данил Бугаков}}; born January 29, 1988) is an Uzbek former swimmer, who specialized in backstroke, freestyle and individual medley events.<ref>{{cite sports-reference|title = Danil Bugakov|url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bu/danil-bugakov-1.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200418075657/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bu/danil-bugakov-1.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = 18 April 2020|access-date = 6 December 2012}}</ref> He won two medals for the 50 m backstroke at the Asian Swimming Championships (2006 in Singapore, and 2009 in Foshan, China). He is also the brother of freestyle swimmer and three-time Olympian Mariya Bugakova.<ref name=bugakov>{{cite news|title=Like a fish in water |url=http://www.ut.uz/eng/sports/like_a_fish_in_water.mgr |publisher=Uzbekistan Today |access-date=6 December 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110320083040/http://www.ut.uz/eng/sports/like_a_fish_in_water.mgr |archive-date=20 March 2011 }}</ref>
==Swimming career== Bugakov started his swimming career at the very young age, and came from a sporting family, in which his parents were both trained in the pool as "working reserves" (''Trudovie rezervi''). In 2002, he first competed at the Asian Age Group Championships in Hong Kong, where he became a junior champion in the backstroke category.<ref name=bugakov/> Bugakov made his official debut, as a 16-year-old, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he competed in the men's 100 m backstroke. With a slight experience in an international level, he recorded the second-slowest time of 1:02.28 in the preliminary heats, finishing only in forty-third place.<ref>{{cite web|title=Men's 100m Backstroke Heat 2|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics_2004/swimming/results/3535102.stm|work=Athens 2004|publisher=BBC Sport|date=15 August 2004|access-date=31 January 2013}}</ref>
Bugakov had received numerous achievements in swimming at the peak of his career. In 2005, he captured a total of seven medals, including his silver for the 100 m backstroke, in short course swimming, at the first-ever Asian Indoor Games in Bangkok, Thailand.<ref name=bugakov/> He also added two medals, including silver for the freestyle relay at the 2006 Asian Swimming Championships in Singapore. At the 2007 FINA World Championships, Bugakov improved his personal best in the 100 m backstroke, by finishing the preliminary heats under one minute, with a time of 58.74 seconds.<ref>{{cite web|title=2007 FINA World Championships (Melbourne, Australia) – Men's 100m Backstroke Heats|url=http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=0001070D0014000000FFFFFFFFFFFF01|format=PDF|publisher=Omega Timing|access-date=11 February 2013}}</ref>
Four years after competing in his first Olympics, Bugakov qualified for his second Uzbekistan team, as a 20-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He cleared FINA B-standard entry times of 57.03 (100 m backstroke) from the Russian Open in Moscow and 2:05.48 (200 m individual medley) from the Kazakhstan Open in Almaty.<ref>{{cite web|title=Olympic Cut Sheet – Men's 100m Backstroke|url=http://magazines.swimmingworld.com:9997/SPIPDF/080508olyscutsheet.pdf|page=24|publisher=Swimming World Magazine|access-date=9 April 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Olympic Cut Sheet – Men's 200m Individual Medley|url=http://magazines.swimmingworld.com:9997/SPIPDF/080508olyscutsheet.pdf|page=41|publisher=Swimming World Magazine|access-date=9 April 2013}}</ref> In the 100 m backstroke, Bugakov posted his personal best of 56.59 seconds to touch the wall first in heat 1 by less than 0.17 of a second ahead of Kazakhstan's Stanislav Osinsky, but finished only in thirty-ninth place.<ref>{{cite web|title=Men's 100m Backstroke Heat 1 |url=http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/swimming/resultsandschedules/rsc=SWM041900/index.html |work=Beijing 2008 |publisher=NBC Olympics |access-date=6 December 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120821032334/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/swimming/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DSWM041900/index.html |archive-date=21 August 2012 }}</ref> In the 200 m individual medley, Bugakov challenged six other swimmers on the same heat including two-time Olympian Omar Pinzón of Colombia. He rounded out the heat in last place by three seconds behind Kyrgyzstan's Iurii Zakharov, with a slowest preliminary time of 2:10.04.<ref>{{cite web|title=Men's 200m Individual Medley Heat 1 |url=http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/swimming/resultsandschedules/rsc=SWM052900/index.html |work=Beijing 2008 |publisher=NBC Olympics |access-date=6 December 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120821062446/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/swimming/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DSWM052900/index.html |archive-date=21 August 2012 }}</ref>
Bugakov is an economics graduate, major in statistics and mathematics, at the Tashkent State University of Economics.<ref name=bugakov/> He is also a current member of Wasserfreunde 98 in Hanover, Germany under head coach and trainer Frank Lamodke, and speaks fluent English, German, and Uzbek.
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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20120824232923/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete%3D64034/bio/index.html NBC Olympics Profile]
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