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Born | Ufa, Soviet Union | April 6, 1967|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Veniamin Igorevich Tayanovich (Russian: Вениамин Игоревич Таянович; born 6 April 1967) is a retired Russian freestyle swimmer.
Tayanovich is best known for winning the gold medal in the Men's 4 × 200 m Freestyle event at the 1992 Summer Olympics at Barcelona, alongside Vladimir Pyshnenko, Dmitry Lepikov, Aleksey Kudryavtsev (heats), Yury Mukhin (heats) and Yevgeny Sadovyi. At the same Olympic Games he also claimed the silver medal with the 4 × 100 m freestyle team, swimming in the qualifying heats.