Étienne Dagon

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Étienne Dagon (born September 13, 1960 in Biel / Bienne ) is a former Swiss swimmer . He won an Olympic bronze medal in the breaststroke in 1984 , the only Olympic medal for a swimmer from Switzerland (as of 2016).

Life

The 1.79 m tall Dagon was eighth in the 200-meter breaststroke at the 1981 European Swimming Championships . The following year he also took eighth place on his special course at the 1982 World Swimming Championships . The 4 x 100 meter layer relay with Stefan Volery , Dano Halsall , Étienne Dagon and Roger Birrer reached seventh place. In 1983 Dagon was fifth over 100 meters breast at the European Championships in Rome .

The swimming competitions of the men were at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles relatively little of the Olympic boycott affected; Of the eight finalists of the 1982 World Championships over 200 meters breaststroke, only two swimmers from the Soviet Union were missing because of the boycott. At the European Championships in 1983, apart from two Soviet swimmers, the Hungarian Albán Vermes was also in the final. In the Olympic competitions, the 100-meter chest competition was first on the program. Here Dagon took 20th place with 1: 05.37 min. Over 200 meters he reached the final as fourth-best in 2: 18.95 minutes. There he improved to 2: 17.41 min and won the bronze medal behind the Canadian Victor Davis and the Australian Glenn Beringen . The Swiss layer relay took seventh place with Patrick Ferland , Étienne Dagon, Théophile David and Dano Halsall. For the first medal win by a Swiss swimmer at the Olympic Games, Dagon was voted Sportsman of the Year in 1984.

At the European Swimming Championships in Sofia in 1985 , Dagon won bronze over 200 meters behind Dmitri Wolkow from the Soviet Union and Alexandre Yokochi from Portugal. The following year he did not reach the individual finals at the 1986 World Swimming Championships in Madrid, the tier relay with Volery, Halsall, Dagon and Ferland took sixth place. In 1987 Dagon reached the final over 200 meters breast at the European Swimming Championships 1987 in Strasbourg and finished eighth.

At the end of his active career, Dagon took 27th place over 100 meters and 13th place over 200 meters chest at the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988 . As ninth of the prelims, the tier relay just barely missed the finals.

Étienne Dagon began his swimming career with the Swim Boys Biel . After having trained mainly in Geneva since 1982, he joined the Genève Natation 1885 club in 1984 .

After his sporting career, the trained micromechanic worked in the watch industry. From 1996 to 2008 he was responsible for the infrastructure and promotion of sport in Neuchâtel . Étienne Dagon has been the sports delegate of the city of Biel / Bienne since August 2014, after having already sat on the city council of Biel / Bienne in the 1980s.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . P. 995 f. (Individual competitions) and p. 1000 (relay).
  2. ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 . P. 156 f. (Single) and p. 162 f. (Season).
  3. ↑ Biel swimmer from hero to traitor and then honored. In: Bieler Tagblatt . December 12, 2014 (review; accessed December 25, 2018).
  4. ↑ Former Olympic bronze medalist becomes Sports Delegate. In: Bieler Tagblatt. June 18, 2014 (accessed December 25, 2018).
personal data
SURNAME Dagon, Etienne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss swimmer
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Biel / Bienne