Dávid Kolozár (born August 3, 1981) is a Hungarian former swimmer who specialized in butterfly events. He is a former varsity swimmer for the
Arizona State Sun Devils, and a graduate of tourism and business at the
Arizona State University
Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public research university in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, ASU is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in the ...
in
Tempe, Arizona.
Kolozar qualified for the
men's 200 m butterfly at the
2004 Summer Olympics
The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...
in
Athens, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 1:58.99 from the national championships in
Székesfehérvár
Székesfehérvár (; german: Stuhlweißenburg ), known colloquially as Fehérvár ("white castle"), is a city in central Hungary, and the country's ninth-largest city. It is the regional capital of Central Transdanubia, and the centre of Fejér ...
. He challenged seven other swimmers on the fourth heat, including Olympic veterans
Takashi Yamamoto of Japan and
Franck Esposito
Franck Esposito (born 13 April 1971 in Salon-de-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône) is a former World Record holding, and four-time Olympic, butterfly swimmer from France. He swam for France at the 1996, 2000 and 2004 Olympics; and won the bronze medal ...
of France. He edged out Peru's
Juan Pablo Valdivieso
Juan Pablo Valdivieso (born February 27, 1981) is a Peruvian former swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events. Valdivieso holds a dual citizenship between his parents' nation Peru and the United States, where he currently resides. He is also i ...
to take a seventh spot by less than 0.10 of a second in 2:01.89. Kolozar failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed twenty-fifth overall in the preliminaries.
References
External links
Player Bio – Arizona State Sun Devils
1981 births
Living people
Olympic swimmers for Hungary
Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Hungarian male butterfly swimmers
Arizona State Sun Devils men's swimmers
Swimmers from Budapest
20th-century Hungarian people
21st-century Hungarian people
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