By the time he was 17, Baumann held 38 Canadian swimming records. Internationally, he won gold in the the 200 and 400-metre events an the 1982 Commonwealth Games and the 400-meter championship in the 1983 World University Games.
At the 1984 Olympics, Baumann won gold medals in the 400-metre individual medley, setting a world record time of 4:17.41, and the 200-metre race, setting a world record of 2:01.42. He won Canada's first gold medals in men's swimming since 1912.
He was named Canada's male athlete of the year for 1984 and was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
It was as assistant to Hoppe-Seyler that Baumann obtained his doctor's degree at Tubingen in 1872 with a dissertation on vinyl compounds.
Baumann's interest in the formation of sulfates in the body led to the finding that urinary ethereal sulfates were related to putrefactive decomposition occurring in the intestine.
Dagmar became engaged to the eldest son of Tsar Alexander II of Russia, the Tsarevitch Nicholas, in the summer of 1864 during the war with Prussia and Austria.
Princess Dagmar of Denmark (Maria Feodorovna) was originally engaged to be married to the Grand Duke Nicolai, the eldest son of Tsar Alexander II of Russia, the Tsarevitch Nicholas.
Nicholas was born on the Alexander Palace, as the first born child of Tsar Alexander III and Tsarina Maria Feodorovna, of the House of Romanov-Holstein-Gottorp, in the small town of Tsarskoe Selo ("The Tsar's Village" in Russian), near St. Petersburg.
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