Tomislav Karlo Explained

Tomislav Karlo (born 21 December 1970 in Split, Croatia)^[1] is an Olympic backstroke swimmer from Croatia. He swam for Croatia at the 1996 Olympics.

In the early 1990s, he attended and swam for the USA's Brigham Young University.^[2] During the second half of the 1990s he won several medals at the Short Course European Championships. In 1997 during the FINA World Cup meet in Paris, France he set a European Record in 50 m backstroke with the time 24.52.^[3]

He swam for Croatia at the following international events:

• Olympics: 1996
• World Championships: 1998
• Short Course Worlds: 1997
• Short Course Europeans: 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000

As of 2011, he is the Secretary-General of the Croatian Swimming Federation.^{[4] [5]}

Notes and References

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20200418095028/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ka/tomislav-karlo-1.html Karlo's entry
2. http://www.byucougars.com/Profile.jsp?ID=7738 Karlo's bio
3. Web site: Hrvatska - zemlja svjetskih rekordera. 23 January 2001. hr. 2017-05-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20160609175805/http://www.monitor.hr/clanci/hrvatska-zemlja-svjetskih-rekordera/11186/. 9 June 2016. dead. dmy-all.
4. http://www.lenmagazine.com/len/len.head.page?nodeid=297 Karlo's entry
5. http://www.fina.org/H2O/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=582:cro-croatia&catid=94:europe&Itemid=638 Croatia's federation information