Career
Foreign other people with the same name, see disambiguation page Igor Polianski. Igor Nikolaevich Polianski (Russian: Игорь Николаевич Полянский) (born 20 March 1967 in Novosibirsk) is a former backstroke swimmer from the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Polianski trained at Dynamo in Novosibirsk. In 1986 he became the Honoured Master of Sports of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. On 3 March 1985 in Erfurt, German Democratic Republic, Polianski set the new world record in 200 m backstroke at 1:58.14, that stood six years.
Three years later he improved world record time in 100 m backstroke three times: first on 15 March and 16 March in Tallinn, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, to 55.17 and 55.16 respectively and then on 16 July in Moscow to 55.00.
The latter was beaten by David Berkoff a month later. In 1989 Polianski graduated from Omsk State Institute of Physical Culture.