Dominik Koll

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Dominik Koll
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Personal information
National team  Austria
Born (1984-12-24) 24 December 1984 (age 39)
Linz, Austria
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 70 kg (154 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
Club SK VÖEST Linz
College team Columbia University (U.S.)
Coach Jim Bolster (U.S.)
Medal record
Men's swimming
Representing Austria
European Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Eindhoven 4×200 m freestyle

Dominik Koll (born December 24, 1984) is an Austrian former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle events.[1] He is a two-time Olympian, a 41-time national titleholder, a 5-time long and short course Austrian record holder. He is a member of the swimming team for SK VÖEST Linz. He won a bronze medal, as a member of the Austrian swimming team, at the 2008 European Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands.[2] Koll is one of few LGBT Olympians to come out as gay.[3]

Swimming career

Koll made his Olympic debut at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, competing in the men's 200 m freestyle. Koll cruised to fourth place and twenty-fifth overall by 0.53 of a second behind Latvia's Romāns Miloslavskis in 1:51.36.[4][5]

Four years after competing in his first Olympics, Koll qualified for his second Austrian team, as a 23-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He eclipsed a FINA A-cut time of 1:48.21 from the European Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands.[6][7] In the 200 m freestyle, Koll set a new Austrian mark and recorded a sixteenth fastest time of 1:47.81 on the second night of preliminaries to secure a final spot for the semifinals.[8][9] Followed by the next morning session, Koll failed to qualify for the final, as he finished his semifinal run with a fourth-slowest time of 1:47.87, just 0.06 of a second off his record from the preliminaries.[10]

Two days later, Koll swam on the start-off leg of the men's 4×200 m freestyle relay, recording his individual-split time of 1:47.72. Koll and his teammates David Brandl, Markus Rogan, and Florian Janistyn finished the second heat in fifth place and ninth overall, for another national record-breaking time of 7:11.45.[11]

Shortly after the Olympics, Koll set another national record in the 400 m freestyle at the 2008 European Short Course Swimming Championships, with a time of 3:39.82. The following year, he posted his fifth-career Austrian record time of 1:43.90 by finishing eighth in the preliminary heats of the men's 200 m freestyle at the European Short Course Swimming Championships in Istanbul, Turkey.[12]

Koll is a current member of the swimming team for Columbia Lions, and a film and economics major at Columbia University in New York, New York.[13]

References

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