Łukasz Wójt
Łukasz Wójt | |||||||||||||
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Surname: | Łukasz Wójt | ||||||||||||
Nation: | Poland | ||||||||||||
Swimming style (s) : | Freestyle, layers | ||||||||||||
Society: | SG Frankfurt | ||||||||||||
Birthday: | 13th May 1982 (age 38) | ||||||||||||
Place of birth: | Danzig | ||||||||||||
Size: | 1.94 m | ||||||||||||
Weight: | 87 kg | ||||||||||||
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Łukasz Wójt (born May 13, 1982 in Gdansk ) is a German - Polish freestyle swimmer , medley swimmer and Olympian (2008) who is now active as a triathlete . He is the grandson of the record swimmer Marek Petrusewicz .
Career
swim
Łukasz Wójt has Polish citizenship and is starting internationally for Poland. At the European Championships in Budapest in 2006 , he reached the finals over 200 m individual medley and came in seventh there. He achieved this placement again two years later in Eindhoven . Wójt finished fifth in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay in Poland. At the European Short Course Championships in Rijeka in 2008 he won the bronze medal over 400 m individual medley. With the relay he reached eighth place in the 2008 World Short Course Championships in Manchester , over 400 m individual medley he was sixth. He competed in over 200 m individual medley and with the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing . In both competitions he was eliminated in the preliminary stages.
At German championships Wójt won the titles over 400 m medley in 2005 , 2006 and 2007 . In 2007 he also won the 200 m freestyle title. The swimmer lived in Frankfurt am Main and started for SG Frankfurt , previously for EOSC Offenbach .
Łukasz Wójt took part in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing without reaching a final. An attempted nomination for the 2012 Olympic Games and the 2016 Olympic Games did not succeed.
Triathlon since 2016
Łukasz Wójt lives in Würzburg and has been a triathlete for Germany since 2016.
Time and again he distinguishes himself as one of the fastest swimmers on the long distance.
At Ironman Austria (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running) the then 36-year-old was the fastest swimmer (44:31 min) in July 2018 after 8:28:03 h with a personal long-distance best time the sixth rank.
Łukasz Wójt is included in the best list of German triathletes on the Ironman distance .
Sporting successes
Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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7th July 2019 | 4th | Ironman Austria | Klagenfurt | 08:27:29 | |
June 16, 2019 | 1 | Ironman 70.3 Luxembourg | Remich | 03:49:05 | |
2nd June 2019 | 3 | Ironman 70.3 Kraichgau | Kraichgau | 04:06:24 | |
22 Sep 2018 | 4th | Ironman Italy | Cervia | 08:25:55 | as the fastest swimmer |
1st July 2018 | 6th | Ironman Austria | Klagenfurt | 08:28:03 | as the fastest swimmer with 44:31 min |
May 13, 2018 | 1 | Three rivers triathlon | Gemünden | 01:43:16 | 800 m swimming, 35 km cycling and 10 km running |
July 9, 2017 | 15th | Ironman Germany | Frankfurt am Main | 08:28:44 | as the fastest swimmer with 45:44 min |
June 2017 | 1 | Triathlon Ingolstadt | Ingolstadt | Winner over the middle distance (1.9 km swimming, 86.3 km cycling and 20.2 km running) |
(DNF - Did Not Finish )
Web links
- Profile on the website of the IOC ( Memento from March 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- Łukasz Wójt in the Swimrankings.net database (English)
- Profile and results of Łukasz Wójt in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on June 16, 2019 (English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ LUKASZ WOJT: THE INGOLSTADT TRIATHLON WAS THE FIRST TEST (May 29, 2017)
- ↑ "Must be surprised" (June 8, 2018)
- ↑ Łukasz Wójt celebrates a sovereign start-to-finish victory (May 13, 2018)
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SURNAME | Wójt, Łukasz |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Polish freestyle and intermediate swimmer |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 13, 1982 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Danzig |