Lisa Zaiser (born 23 August 1994) is an Austrian swimmer, who specialized in individual medley events. Zaiser held an Austrian record time of 1:00.77 by finishing seventh in the women's 100 m individual medley at the

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. Zaiser is a member of Volksbank-Spittal Swimming Club german: Schwimmverein-Volksbank Spittal) in Spittal an der Drau, Carinthia, and is coached and trained by Ferdinand Kendi. Zaiser qualified for the women's 200 m individual medley, as the youngest member of the Austrian swimming team (aged 17), at the

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, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 2:14.09 from the Austrian Indoor National Championships in

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. She challenged seven other swimmers on the second heat, including Ireland's

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and Iceland's Eygló Ósk Gústafsdóttir, both of whom shared the same age with Zaiser. She raced to second place by a hundredth of a second (0.01) behind Ukrainian swimmer and two-time Olympian Hanna Dzerkal, outside her qualified entry time of 2:14.56. Zaiser failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed nineteenth overall out of 34 swimmers in the preliminary heats.

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Profile – Austrian Swimming Federation

1994 births Living people Austrian female medley swimmers Olympic swimmers for Austria Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics People from Spittal an der Drau Sportspeople from Carinthia (state) European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming {{Austria-swimming-bio-stub