Alexandre Liess (born June 20, 1991) is a Swiss swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events.
He is a 10-time Swiss swimming champion, and currently holds age group national records in the 200 m butterfly. Liess is a member of SSG Saar Max Ritter in
Germany
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, under his Russian-born coach
Gennadi Touretski, who is best known for training multiple Olympic medalists
Alexander Popov and
Michael Klim
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in the late 1990s.
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, by breaking a Swiss record and eclipsing the FINA B-cut off time of 1:58.13 at the European Championships in Debrecen, Hungary
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. He challenged seven other swimmers in the second heat, including former semifinalist Hsu Chi-chieh of the Chinese Taipei. Liess was in last place by 0.16 of a second behind Canada's David Sharpe. Liess failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-third overall in the preliminaries.
References
External links
NBC Olympics Profile
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1991 births
Living people
Swiss male freestyle swimmers
Olympic swimmers for Switzerland
Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Swiss male butterfly swimmers
Sportspeople from Geneva
21st-century Swiss people
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