- Mateusz Sawrymowicz
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Medal record Men's swimming Competitor for Poland World Championships (LC) Gold 2007 Melbourne 1500 m freestyle World Championships (SC) Bronze 2008 Manchester 1500 m freestyle European Championships (LC) Bronze 2008 Eindhoven 1500 m freestyle European Championships (SC) Gold 2007 Debrecen 1500 m freestyle Silver 2006 Helsinki 1500 m freestyle Bronze 2005 Trieste 1500 m freestyle 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.
External links
- Swim Rankings profile
References
Awards Preceded by
László CsehEuropean Swimmer of the Year
2007Succeeded by
Alain BernardWorld Long Course Champions in Men's 1500 m Freestyle 1973: Stephen Holland (AUS) · 1975: Timothy Shaw (USA) · 1978: Vladimir Salnikov (RUS) · 1982: Vladimir Salnikov (RUS) · 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)
European Short Course Champions in Men's 1500 m Freestyle 1996: Igor Snitko (UKR) · 1998: Graeme Smith (GBR) · 1999: Igor Chervynskyi (UKR) · 2000: Massimiliano Rosolino (ITA) · 2001: Jörg Hoffmann (GER) · 2002–2006: Yury Prilukov (RUS) · 2007: Mateusz Sawrymowicz (POL) · 2008: Federico Colbertaldo (ITA) · 2009: Jan Wolfgarten (GER) · 2010: Federico Colbertaldo (ITA)
Categories:- 1987 births
- Polish swimmers
- Male freestyle swimmers
- People from Lublin
- Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic swimmers of Poland
- Living people
- Swimming World European Swimmers of the Year
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
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