Łukasz Wójt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Łukasz Wójt

Olympic swimmer

Date of Birth: 13-May-1982

Place of Birth: Gdańsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

Profession: swimmer

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Łukasz Wójt

  • Lukasz Wójt (born May 13, 1982) is a Polish swimmer, who specialized in middle-distance freestyle and individual medley events.
  • He represented his nation Poland at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has won two bronze medals in a major international competition, spanning the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand, and the 2008 European Short Course Championships in Rijeka, Croatia.
  • Apart from his international career, Wojt has also claimed multiple Polish championship titles and currently holds the national record in the 200 (1:54.81) and 400 m individual medley (4:03.20), both set at the FINA World Cup meet in Berlin, Germany.Wojt competed for the Polish squad in two swimming events at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
  • He qualified for the Games with a third-place time in 2:00.32 to clear the sub-2:01 barrier and achieve the FINA A-cut in the 200 m individual medley (2:01.40) at the Summer Universiade one year earlier in Bangkok, Thailand.
  • In the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay, Wojt and his teammates Lukasz Gasior, Michal Rokicki, and Przemyslaw Stanczyk finished the second heat of the prelims with an aggregate time of 7:18.09.
  • Swimming the second leg, Wojt recorded a split of 1:48.54, the fastest of the Polish foursome.
  • In the 200 m individual medley, Wojt put up a fantastic swim with a help of his powerful backstroke leg to take the sixth spot in heat four with a 2:01.54, but fell short for the semifinals, finishing twenty-sixth overall in the prelims.Wojt currently resides in Frankfurt, Germany, where he trains full-time at EOSC Offenbach under his mother and personal coach Danuta.
  • He is also the grandson of Marek Petrusewicz, a breaststroke swimmer who competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.

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