Mateusz Sawrymowicz
Mateusz Sawrymowicz in 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Mateusz Sawrymowicz | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Poland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1987-04-22) 22 April 1987 (age 37) Lublin, Poland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 75 kg (165 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Mateusz Sawrymowicz (born 22 April 1987 in Lublin) is a Polish swimmer who specializes in the 1500 m freestyle. Having won in Melbourne in 2007 he became the first person to beat Grant Hackett at the 1500 m in the World Championships for 10 years.[1] Later in the year in Debrecen, he became the first person to beat Yury Prilukov in the European Short Course Championships for 5 years.
Sawrymowicz originally touched 4th at the 2012 World Short Course Championships in Istanbul, and was later awarded a bronze medal after the disqualification of Mads Glaesner, the gold medalist, for an anti-doping violation.
However, upon appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, Glaesner's 1500-meter freestyle gold medal was reinstated based on the fact that a test after that race, two days after his initial positive test following the 400-meter free, was clean. He still forfeited the 400-meter freestyle bronze, which he did not appeal. This means that Sawrymowicz's official position was returned to 4th place in the 1500-meter freestyle.[2]
References
External links
- Mateusz Sawrymowicz at Swimrankings.net
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Preceded by | European Swimmer of the Year 2007 | Succeeded by Alain Bernard |
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- 1973: Stephen Holland (AUS)
- 1975: Tim Shaw (USA)
- 1978: Vladimir Salnikov (URS)
- 1982: Vladimir Salnikov (URS)
- 1986: Rainer Henkel (FRG)
- 1991: Jörg Hoffmann (GER)
- 1994: Kieren Perkins (AUS)
- 1998: Grant Hackett (AUS)
- 2001: Grant Hackett (AUS)
- 2003: Grant Hackett (AUS)
- 2005: Grant Hackett (AUS)
- 2007: Mateusz Sawrymowicz (POL)
- 2009: Oussama Mellouli (TUN)
- 2011: Sun Yang (CHN)
- 2013: Sun Yang (CHN)
- 2015: Gregorio Paltrinieri (ITA)
- 2017: Gregorio Paltrinieri (ITA)
- 2019: Florian Wellbrock (GER)
- 2022: Gregorio Paltrinieri (ITA)
- 2023: Ahmed Hafnaoui (TUN)
- 2024: Daniel Wiffen (IRL)