Michal Rubáček, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Olympic swimmer
Date of Birth: 19-Dec-1986
Place of Birth: Znojmo, South Moravian Region, Czech Republic
Profession: swimmer
Nationality: Czech Republic
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Michal Rubáček
- Michal Rubácek (born December 19, 1986) is a Czech swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events.
- He is a two-time Olympian, and a multiple-time Czech national record holder for the butterfly events (50, 100, and 200 m).Rubacek made his first Czech team, as a 17-year-old, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he competed only in butterfly and relay freestyle events.
- He also joined with his fellow swimmers Kvetoslav Svoboda, Josef Horký, and Martin Škacha in the men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay.
- Swimming the lead-off leg, Rubacek recorded a split of 1:51.37, and the Czech team went on to finish heat two in seventh place and thirtieth overall, for a total time of 7:26.26.
- Few days later, Rubacek won the second heat of the men's 100 m butterfly by approximately one second ahead of Uzbekistan's Oleg Lyashko, with a time of 54.87 seconds.
- Finishing only in thirty-ninth place, Rubacek failed to qualify for the semifinals.At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Rubacek qualified for the second time in the men's 100 m butterfly, by clearing a FINA B-cut of 53.71 from the European Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
- He challenged seven other swimmers in the fourth heat, including three-time Olympians Ioan Gherghel of Romania and Juan Veloz of Mexico.
- Rubacek raced to fourth place by five hundredths of a second (0.05) ahead of Veloz, breaking a new Czech record of 53.53 seconds.
- Rubacek failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed forty-second out of 66 swimmers in the preliminaries.At the 2009 FINA World Championships in Rome, Italy, Rubacek dipped under a 52-second barrier, and lowered his record to 51.99 seconds in the preliminary heats of the 100 m butterfly.
- Few weeks later, he won a bronze medal in the same stroke at the Summer Universiade in Belgrade, Serbia, posting his time at 52.33 seconds.On March 27, 2012, Rubacek ordered a two-year suspension from the Czech Swimming Federation (Czech: Ceský svaz plaveckých sportu, CSPS), after he was tested positive for a banned stimulant methylhexanamine.
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