Nikša Roki

Niksa Roki
Personal information
Full name Niksa Roki
National team  Croatia
Born (1988-02-08) 8 February 1988
Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight 80 kg (176 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Butterfly, medley
Club Zagrebački PK
College team Ohio State University (U.S.)

Nikša Roki (born February 8, 1988) is a Croatian swimmer, who specialized in butterfly and individual medley events.[1] He represented his nation Croatia at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has claimed multiple-time Croatian championship titles and national records throughout his swimming career in the 200 m butterfly and the individual medley double (both 200 and 400 m).[2]

Roki competed for Croatia in two swimming events at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Leading up to the Games, he managed to dip beneath the FINA B-cut in 2:01.56 (200 m butterfly) and 4:25.28 (400 m individual medley) at the Golden Bear meet in Zagreb.[3] On the first day of the Games, Roki broke a Croatian record of 4:22.44 to touch the wall first in heat one of the 400 m individual medley, but finished only in twenty-third place.[4] In the 200 m butterfly, Roki repeated his luck in the evening prelims, as he topped the first heat against India's Rehan Poncha, Peru's Emmanuel Crescimbeni, and Honduras' Javier Hernández Maradiaga, overhauling a sub-2:00 barrier with a new Croatian record on a tech body suit in 1:59.58, nearly two seconds faster than his entry time. Roki failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-first overall in the prelims.[5]

Roki is previously a member of the swimming team for the Ohio State Buckeyes, and a graduate of biology at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio (2011). He was also named an honorable mention Scholar All-American by the National Swimming Coaches Association of America in 2009.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Nikša Roki". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
  2. ↑ "Croatian Championships: Niksa Roki, Roko Simunic Set National Records". Swimming World Magazine. 6 July 2009. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
  3. ↑ "Golden Bear: Agata Korc Sets Polish Record". Swimming World Magazine. 22 June 2008. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
  4. ↑ "Men's 400m Individual Medley Heat 1". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
  5. ↑ "Swimming: Men's 200m Butterfly Heat 1". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
  6. ↑ "A Night to Swim, Dive & Celebrate Seniors". Ohio State Buckeyes. 5 February 2010. Retrieved 5 April 2013.

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