Dominik Straga

Dominik Straga
Personal information
Nationality  Croatia
Born 20 June 1988
Rijeka, SR Croatia,
SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight 84 kg (185 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle, butterfly
Club PK Primorje Rijeka

Dominik Straga (born June 20, 1988 in Rijeka) is a Croatian swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events.[1] He is a multiple-time Croatian champion and a three-time record holder in the long and short course freestyle (100 and 200 m), and butterfly (50, 100, and 200 m). He also won two bronze medals in the same stroke (50 and 100 m) at the 2006 European Junior Swimming Championships in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, with respective times of 24.62 and 54.51.[2]

Straga qualified for the men's 200 m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by finishing third and attaining a B-standard entry time of 1:51.53 from the Croatian Open Championships in Dubrovnik.[3][4] He challenged seven other swimmers on the third heat including Papua New Guinea's Ryan Pini, who later finished eighth in the 100 m butterfly final. Straga cruised to second place by 0.59 of a second behind Pini, breaking a Croatian record time of 1:49.63. Straga failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-seventh out of 58 swimmers in the preliminary heats.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Dominik Straga". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 20 December 2012.
  2. ↑ Rusticus, Oene (10 July 2006). "European Junior Championships Close with a Flourish". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
  3. ↑ "Croatian Open Championships: Several More National Records Tumble". Swimming World Magazine. 14 July 2008. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
  4. ↑ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Men's 200m Freestyle" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 15. Retrieved 9 April 2013.
  5. ↑ "Men's 200m Freestyle Heat 3". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 21 December 2012.

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