Łukasz Gąsior

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]

Łukasz Gąsior
Personal information
Full nameŁukasz Waldemar Gąsior
National team Poland
Born (1986-01-14) 14 January 1986
Łowicz, Poland
Height1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight80 kg (176 lb)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesFreestyle
ClubAZS Warszawa
Medal record
Men's swimming
Representing Poland
European Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2004 Lisbon 50 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2004 Lisbon 100 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Lisbon 200 m freestyle

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. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Łukasz Gąsior". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. 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. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
  7. "Men's 4×200m Freestyle Relay Heat 2". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
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