Łukasz Gąsior

Łukasz Gąsior

Personal information
Full name	Łukasz Waldemar Gąsior
National team	Poland
Born	14 January 1986 Łowicz, Poland
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	80 kg (176 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle
Club	AZS Warszawa
Medal record Men's swimming Competitor for Poland European Junior Championships 2004 Lisbon 50 m freestyle 2004 Lisbon 100 m freestyle 2004 Lisbon 200 m freestyle

Łukasz Waldemar Gąsior (born January 14, 1986) is a Polish swimmer, who specialized in middle-distance freestyle events.^[1] He represented his nation Poland at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has won a career total of three medals (two golds and one bronze) in a major international competition, spanning the 2004 European Junior Swimming Championships in Lisbon, Portugal.^[2][3]

Gasior competed for the Polish squad in two swimming events at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He raced to a sixth-seeded time in 1:48.52 coming to the top-eight final to dip beneath the FINA B-standard (1:48.72) by two tenths of a second (0.2) at the European Championships five months earlier in Eindhoven, Netherlands.^[4][5] In the 200 m freestyle, Gasior rounded out the field to eighth in the last of eight heats with a frustrating 1:49.25, trailing eventual Olympic champion Michael Phelps of the United States and runner-up Park Tae-hwan of South by nearly four seconds, and missing the semifinals with a thirty-fourth place finish from the prelims.^[6] Gasior also teamed up with Łukasz Wójt, Michał Rokicki, and Przemysław Stańczyk in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay. Swimming the lead-off leg, Gasior recorded a split of 1:48.40, and the Polish team went on to finish heat two in seventh place and fourteenth overall with a final time of 7:18.09.^[7]

References

1. "Łukasz Gąsior". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
2. "2004 European Junior Championships". Swimming World Magazine. 18 July 2004. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
3. "ME juniorów w pływaniu – złoty medal Łukasza Gąsiora" (in Polish). Wirtualna Polska. 16 July 2004. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
4. "Olympic Cut Sheet – Men's 100m Freestyle" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 6. Retrieved 9 April 2013.
5. "2008 LEN European Aquatics Championships (Eindhoven, Netherlands) – Men's 200m Freestyle Semifinals" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
6. "Swimming: Men's 200m Freestyle Heat 8". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
7. "Men's 4×200m Freestyle Relay Heat 2". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 28 December 2012.

External links

• NBC Olympics Profile