Dano Halsall
Dano Halsall 
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| Surname: | Daniel Halsall | ||||||
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| Swimming style (s) : | Freestyle | ||||||
| Society: | USCA Carouge | ||||||
| Birthday: | February 16, 1963 | ||||||
| Place of birth: | Geneva | ||||||
| Size: | 190 cm | ||||||
| Weight: | 90 kg | ||||||
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Daniel Dano Halsall (born February 16, 1963 in Geneva ) is a former Swiss swimmer . He specialized in freestyle swimming.
Career
Halsall, the son of a Swiss woman and a Jamaican, came to swimming at the age of eight in 1971 as part of school swimming. After a coach discovered him, he began his professional career in 1983. Halsall celebrated his first international success at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles . After fifth place in the 50 m freestyle and 11th place in the 100 m butterfly, he and his teammates only got seventh and ninth places in the two relay competitions.
On July 21, 1985, at the Swiss meeting in Bellinzona , he set a new world record in the 50 meter freestyle with 22.4 seconds , which was held until December 1985. At the 1986 World Swimming Championships in Madrid , he won the silver medal behind the American Tom Jager in this discipline .
At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul , he narrowly missed his first Olympic medal over the 50 meters in fourth. Over the 100 meters he was in 23rd place at the end. Together with Patrick Ferland , Étienne Dagon and Stéfan Voléry , he finished the subsequent relay race in ninth place.
Four years later he started again at the Summer Olympics in Barcelona in 1992 over the 50-meter distance, but did not get beyond 16th place and ended his active career after the Games. In the course of his swimming career, Halsall won a total of 86 Swiss championship titles.
Private
Halsall is married for the second time. He and his first wife have two grown children. He and his second wife Lena have a son, Suny. After the end of his active career, he began to work in the real estate business and founded the agency L-agen.se in Lausanne .
Web links
- Dano Halsall in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Dano Halsall in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
- Interview with Dano Halsall by Chantal-Anne Jacot on openmag.ch
Individual evidence
- ↑ Les Jeux sont faits: avec Dano Halsall ( French ) RTS Sport. August 9, 2012. Retrieved September 24, 2014.
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| SURNAME | Halsall, Dano |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Halsall, Daniel (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss swimmer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Geneva , Switzerland |