Agata Czaplicki (born 22 October 1983) is a Swiss former swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events. She represented

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, as a 16-year-old, at the

2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 ...

, and also held numerous national meet and age group records in a breaststroke double (both 100 and 200 m). Czaplicki competed in a breaststroke double at the

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. She achieved FINA B-standards of 1:12.40 (100 m breaststroke) and 2:31.12 (200 m breaststroke) from the

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. On the second day of the Games, Czaplicki placed twenty-seventh in the 100 m breaststroke. Swimming in heat three, she came up with a spectacular swim on the final stretch to a third seed in 1:13.19, more than half a second (0.50) closer to her entry standard. Three days later, in the 200 m breaststroke, Czaplicki posted a time of 2:32.98 from the final of five heats, but finished outside the semifinals by 3.38 seconds with a twenty-second-place effort.

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* 1983 births Living people Olympic swimmers for Switzerland Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Swiss female breaststroke swimmers Sportspeople from Ticino 21st-century Swiss sportswomen {{Switzerland-swimming-bio-stub