Dragoş Coman (born October 16, 1980 in

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) is an international freestyle

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from

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, who represented his native country at three consecutive

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, starting in

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. A year earlier, at the European LC Championships 1999 in

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, he won his first medal: a silver one at the 1500 m freestyle. He also won the bronze medal at the 2003 World Championships in Barcelona, in the 400 m freestyle, only being surpassed by Thorpe and Hackett. He is Romania's top swimmer in the 400 and 1500 m freestyle races, winning European Junior gold medals, and several medals in European and world championships. Also he is titleholder in both 400 and 1500 m freestyle, at the World Military Games, winning medals at every edition.

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Profile on Romanian Olympic Committee
1980 births Living people Olympic swimmers for Romania Romanian male freestyle swimmers Sportspeople from Bucharest Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Universiade medalists in swimming FISU World University Games gold medalists for Romania Universiade silver medalists for Romania Universiade bronze medalists for Romania Medalists at the 2001 Summer Universiade 20th-century Romanian people 21st-century Romanian people {{Romania-swimming-bio-stub