[1] Morkovin qualified for the men's 200 m breaststroke at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by clearing a FINA B-cut of 2:18.76 from the Russian Open Championships in Moscow.

[2] He challenged seven other swimmers in heat two, including dual citizen Mihail Alexandrov of Bulgaria.

He raced to fifth place by seven tenths of a second (0.70) behind Algeria's Sofiane Daid in 2:18.48.

Morkovin failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-fourth overall in the preliminaries.

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