Ádám Madarassy

Ádám Madarassy

Personal information
Full name	Ádám Madarassy
National team	Hungary
Born	(1985-03-14) 14 March 1985 Budapest, Hungary
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	78 kg (172 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Butterfly
Club	Ferencvárosi TC
College team	University of Louisville (U.S.)
Coach	Arthur Albeiro (U.S.)

The native form of this personal name is Madarassy Ádám. This article uses the Western name order.

Ádám Madarassy (born March 14, 1985 in Budapest) is a Hungarian swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events. Madarassy is a member of the swimming team for Louisville Cardinals, and also, a management graduate at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky.

Madarassy competed for Hungary in the men's 100 m butterfly at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Leading up to the Games, he registered a time of 54.28 to eclipse the FINA B-cut (54.70) by 0.42 of a second at the USA Swimming Grand Prix in Columbus, Ohio. Madarassy threw down his lifetime best of 53.93 to hit the wall with a fourth-place finish in heat three, trailing winner Rimvydas Šalčius of Lithuania by just more than a second. Madarassy failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed fiftieth out of 66 swimmers in the prelims.

External links

• Player Bio – Louisville Cardinals
• NBC Olympics Profile