Artur Wojdat
Artur Wojdat 
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Artur Wojdat in 1989. |
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| Surname: | Artur Wojdat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Poland
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| Swimming style (s) : | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Society: | Olimpia poses | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team: | University of Iowa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birthday: | May 20, 1968 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth: | Olsztyn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artur Wojdat (born May 20, 1968 in Olsztyn ) is a former Polish swimmer . The 1.94 m tall freestyle swimmer was the second Polish swimming world record holder after Marek Petrusewicz , the first Polish medalist at the Olympic Games and two-time European champion .
successes
Wojdat swam for Olimpia Posen (Polish: Olimpia Poznań) as well as for the Californian Mission Viejo Nadadores and the University of Iowa .
His perhaps most important international result was the bronze medal in the 400-meter freestyle race at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul in 3: 47.34 minutes behind the world record-setting Uwe Daßler ( GDR , 3: 46.95) and Duncan Armstrong (Australia, 3: 47.15), the winner over 200 m. On March 25, 1988 Wojdat broke the 400-meter freestyle world record in Orlando in 3: 47.38. He also competed in the 200 m freestyle in Seoul, where he was fourth, and over 1500 m, over which he was eliminated in the prelim. His country's 4 × 200-meter freestyle relay did not make it into the final. At the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona he could not reach the finals over 200 or 400 m.
Wojdat won two bronze medals at the swimming world championships , namely over 200 m and 400 m freestyle in 1991 in Perth (200 m: 1: 48.70; behind Giorgio Lamberti and Steffen Zesner - 400 m: 3: 49.67; behind Jörg Hoffmann and Stefan Pfeiffer ). At the 1993 Short Course World Championships in Palma there was again bronze over 200 m, this time behind Antti Kasvio and Trent Bray .
Wojdat was European champion at the European Swimming Championships in 1989 in Bonn over 400 m, this time ahead of Stefan Pfeiffer, and in 1991 in Athens over 200 m freestyle ahead of Lamberti.
In Poland, Wojdat was a total of 20 Polish champions between 1985 and 1991 and achieved 37 Polish records on the 50-meter track and 17 on the short track.
Personal bests
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Web links
- Artur Wojdat in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Portrait of Wojdat ( memento of March 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Polish Olympic Committee (Polish)
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| SURNAME | Wojdat, Artur |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish swimmer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Olsztyn |