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Russian swimmer
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14 February 2003(Bryansk, Bryansk Urban Okrug, Bryansk Oblast, Russia)
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Ilya Aleksandrovich Borodin (Russian: Илья Александрович Бородин; born 14 February 2003)is a Russian swimmer. He is the 2020 European Champions in the men's 400 m individual medley. He also won gold medals in the 200 m and 400 m individual medley events at the 2019 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival.
Borodin took up swimming aged seven. He missed the 2021 Summer Olympics because of a positive COVID-19 test. In the 400 metre individual medley event of the 2021 World Championships in Abu Dhabi he won the silver medal behind Daiya Seto establishing a world junior record and European record with a time of 3:56.47.