Tomislav Karlo (born 21 December 1970 in Split, Croatia) is an Olympic backstroke

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. He swam for Croatia at the

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. In the early 1990s, he attended and swam for the USA's

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. During the second half of the 1990s he won several medals at the Short Course European Championships. In 1997 during the FINA World Cup meet in

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he set a European Record in 50 m backstroke with the time 24.52. He swam for Croatia at the following international events: *Olympics:

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*World Championships:

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*Short Course Worlds:

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*Short Course Europeans:

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2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

As of 2011, he is the Secretary-General of the

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.Croatia's federation information
from the FINA member federation directory; retrieved 2011-06-24.

References

1970 births Living people Male backstroke swimmers Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic swimmers for Croatia Sportspeople from Split, Croatia Croatian male swimmers Croatian sports executives and administrators 20th-century Croatian people {{Croatia-swimming-bio-stub