Jonathan Massacand

Jonathan Massacand
Personal information
Nationality   Switzerland
Born (1984-02-26) 26 February 1984
Morges, Switzerland
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in)
Weight 75 kg (165 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Backstroke
Club Genève Natation 1885 (SUI)

Jonathan Massacand (born February 26, 1984 in Morges) is a Swiss swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events.[1] He is a two-time current Swiss record holder for both 100 and 200 m backstroke. Massacand also won a gold medal, as a local favorite, in the same discipline at the 2012 Zurich International Meet, claiming a personal best of 56.49 seconds.[2]

Massacand qualified for two swimming events at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by clearing FINA B-standard entry times of 55.24 (100 m backstroke) and 2:00.16 (200 m backstroke) from the European Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands.[3][4][5] In the 100 m backstroke, Massacand challenged seven other swimmers on the third heat, including Olympic veterans Derya Büyükuncu of Turkey and Sung Min of South Korea. He finished ahead of Buyukuncu in fifth place and twenty-seventh overall by 0.21 of a second, breaking a Swiss record of 55.21 seconds.[6] In his second event, 200 m backstroke, Massacand knocked off Greece's Dimitrios Chasiotis to last place on the same heat by half a second (0.50) in 2:01.80. His Olympic time in the 200, however, was 1.64 seconds slower than his record set earlier at the European Championships.[3] Massacand failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-second overall in the preliminary heats.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Jonathan Massacand". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
  2. ↑ "Zurich International Meet: Ian Thorpe Competes in 400 Free; Nina Kost Triples". Swimming World Magazine. 25 February 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
  3. 1 2 "Olympia-Limite für Massacand" [Olympic limits for Massacand] (in German). Schweizer Radio DRS. 22 March 2008. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
  4. ↑ "2008 LEN European Aquatics Championships (Eindhoven, Netherlands) – Men's 100m Backstroke Semifinals" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
  5. ↑ "2008 LEN European Aquatics Championships (Eindhoven, Netherlands) – Men's 200m Backstroke Heats" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
  6. ↑ "Men's 100m Backstroke Heat 3". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
  7. ↑ "Men's 200m Backstroke Heat 3". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 29 November 2012.

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