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Jani Sievinen

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Jani Sievinen, born on 31 March 1974, is a former medley swimmer from Finland. He won the silver medal in the 200 metre individual medley at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. His most celebrated performance came at the 1994 World Championships, where he won the 200 metre individual medley and set a new world record of 1 minute 58.16 seconds. That mark stood for almost nine years until it was broken by the American swimmer Michael Phelps. Sievinen keeps a personal website, and the article records that he has three daughters born in 2008, 2010 and 2013 as well as two sons born in 1997 and 2001.

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    won the silver medal in the 200 m individual medley at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta
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