Sebastian Stoss, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Sebastian Stoss

Olympic swimmer

Date of Birth: 14-Jan-1986

Place of Birth: Cairo, Egypt

Profession: swimmer

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Sebastian Stoss (born January 14, 1986 in Cairo, Egypt) is an Austrian swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events.
He is a two-time Olympian, a multiple-time Austrian champion, and also, a current member of Eisenstädter Swimming Club (German: Eisenstädter Schwimmunion), under his personal coach Andrzej Szarzynski.Stoss qualified for the men's 200 m backstroke at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by eclipsing a FINA A-standard entry time of 1:59.27 from the European Swimming Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
He challenged seven other swimmers on the fourth heat, including three-time Olympians Razvan Florea of Romania, Simon Dufour of France, and his teammate and two-time Olympic silver medalist Markus Rogan.
He raced to fifth place and nineteenth overall by fifteen hundredths of a second (0.15) ahead of Japan's Takashi Nakano with a time of 1:59.44.
Stoss also tied his overall position with Hungary's Roland Rudolf.Four years after competing in his first Olympics, Stoss qualified for his second Austrian team, as a 26-year-old, at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London by clearing a B-standard entry time of 2:00.89 in the men's 200 m backstroke.
Stoss raced to second place in heat 1 by a single second behind Turkish swimmer and six-time Olympian Derya Büyükuncu with a second-slowest time of 2:02.91.
Stoss failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-fourth overall in the preliminary heats.