Sebastian Stoss Explained

Sebastian Stoss
Strokes:Backstroke
Club:Eisenstädter SU
Coach:Andrzej Szarzynski
Birth Date:14 January 1986
Birth Place:Cairo, Egypt
Weight:930NaN0
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Sebastian Stoss (born 14 January 1986 in Cairo, Egypt) is an Austrian swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events.[1] [2] He is a two-time Olympian, a multiple-time Austrian champion, and also, a current member of Eisenstädter Swimming Club (German: Eisenstädter Schwimmunion), under his personal coach Andrzej Szarzynski.[1] [3]

Stoss qualified for the men's 200 m backstroke at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by eclipsing a FINA A-standard entry time of 1:59.27 from the European Swimming Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands.[4] [5] He challenged seven other swimmers on the fourth heat, including three-time Olympians Răzvan Florea of Romania, Simon Dufour of France, and his teammate and two-time Olympic silver medalist Markus Rogan. He raced to fifth place and nineteenth overall by fifteen hundredths of a second (0.15) ahead of Japan's Takashi Nakano with a time of 1:59.44. Stoss also tied his overall position with Hungary's Roland Rudolf.[6]

Four years after competing in his first Olympics, Stoss qualified for his second Austrian team, as a 26-year-old, at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London by clearing a B-standard entry time of 2:00.89 in the men's 200 m backstroke.[7] Stoss raced to second place in heat 1 by a single second behind Turkish swimmer and six-time Olympian Derya Büyükuncu with a second-slowest time of 2:02.91. Stoss failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-fourth overall in the preliminary heats.[8]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sebastian Stoss. London 2012. 22 January 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130523120227/http://www.london2012.com/athlete/stoss-sebastian-1110792/. 23 May 2013.
  2. Sebastian Stoss. https://web.archive.org/web/20200417230006/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/st/sebastian-stoss-1.html. dead. 17 April 2020. 22 January 2013.
  3. News: Mirna Jukic Dominates Austria Championships. Swimming World Magazine. 10 February 2008. 22 January 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140407103627/http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/17011.asp. 7 April 2014.
  4. Web site: Olympic Cut Sheet – Men's 200m Backstroke. 25. Swimming World Magazine. 9 April 2013.
  5. News: Alain Bernard smashes his own 100-meter freestyle mark for second record in 2 days. New York Times. 23 March 2008. 11 April 2013.
  6. Web site: Men's 200m Backstroke Heat 4 . . . 22 January 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120821061614/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/swimming/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DSWM042900/index.html . 21 August 2012 .
  7. News: Qualifying Athletes – Men's 200 m backstroke. FINA. 22 January 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20121116043921/http://www.fina.org/H2O/docs/events/london2012/sw/qual_lists/men_200back.pdf. 16 November 2012.
  8. Web site: Men's 200m Backstroke Heat 1. London 2012. 22 January 2013. 9 December 2012. https://archive.today/20121209055151/www.london2012.com/swimming/event/men-200m-backstroke/phase=swm042900/index.html. dead.