Sebastian Stoss (born January 14, 1986 in

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) is an Austrian swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events. He is a two-time Olympian, a multiple-time Austrian champion, and also, a current member of Eisenstädter Swimming Club (german: Eisenstädter Schwimmunion), under his personal coach Andrzej Szarzynski. Stoss qualified for the men's 200 m backstroke at the

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, by eclipsing a FINA A-standard entry time of 1:59.27 from the European Swimming Championships in

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. He challenged seven other swimmers on the fourth heat, including three-time Olympians

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of France, and his teammate and two-time Olympic silver medalist

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. He raced to fifth place and nineteenth overall by fifteen hundredths of a second (0.15) ahead of Japan's

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with a time of 1:59.44. Stoss also tied his overall position with Hungary's Roland Rudolf. Four years after competing in his first Olympics, Stoss qualified for his second Austrian team, as a 26-year-old, at the

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by clearing a B-standard entry time of 2:00.89 in the men's 200 m backstroke. Stoss raced to second place in heat 1 by a single second behind Turkish swimmer and six-time Olympian

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with a second-slowest time of 2:02.91. Stoss failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-fourth overall in the preliminary heats.

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NBC Olympics Profile
1986 births Living people Austrian male backstroke swimmers Olympic swimmers of Austria Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Cairo People from Eisenstadt Sportspeople from Burgenland 21st-century Austrian people {{Austria-swimming-bio-stub