Tamás Szűcs | |
Fullname: | Tamás Szűcs |
Strokes: | Freestyle |
Club: | Ferencvárosi TC |
Coach: | Don Gibb (U.S.) |
Collegeteam: | University of South Carolina (U.S.) |
Birth Date: | 18 February 1981 |
Birth Place: | Budapest, Hungary |
Height: | 1.920NaN0 |
Weight: | 870NaN0 |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Tamás Szűcs (born February 18, 1981) is a Hungarian former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle events.[1] He is a two-time SEC titleholder in the 50 and 200 m freestyle, and a former member of the swimming team for the South Carolina Gamecocks at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina.[2]
Szucs qualified for two swimming events at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 1:50.79 (200 m freestyle) from the national championships in Budapest.[3] In the 200 m freestyle, Szucs challenged seven other swimmers on the fifth heat, including three-time Olympian Jacob Carstensen of Denmark. He edged out South Korea's Han Kyu-Chul to take a seventh spot and thirty-second overall by two hundredths of a second (0.02) in 1:52.26.[4] [5] Szucs also teamed up with Balázs Gercsák, Balázs Makány, and Tamás Kerékjártó in the 4×200 m freestyle relay. Swimming the anchor leg, Szucs recorded a split of 1:52.35, and the Hungarian team finished the heats in sixteenth overall with a slowest final time of 7:31.78.[6]