David Karasek (born 6 October 1987 in Zurich) is a Swiss swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and individual medley events. He is a 10-time Swiss swimming champion, a multiple-time medley record holder, and a former member of the swimming team for

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under his personal coaches Mark Bernardino and Dirk Reinicke. Karasek qualified for the men's 200 m individual medley at the

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in London, by breaking a Swiss record and eclipsing a FINA B-cut of 2:01.79 from the national championships in Zurich. He challenged seven other swimmers on the second heat, including Olympic veterans

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of Barbados,

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of Estonia, and

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of Luxembourg. He edged out Tunisia's

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to pick up a seventh spot by 0.06 of a second, lowering his own Swiss record to 2:01.35. Karasek failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed twenty-eighth overall in the preliminaries. Karasek is a commerce graduate at the University of Virginia in

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, where he currently resides. In February 2013, Karasek admitted in his university interview that he is working on his master's degree of finance at the IE Business School in Madrid, Spain.

References

External links

NBC Olympics Profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Karasek, David 1987 births Living people Swiss male freestyle swimmers Olympic swimmers for Switzerland Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Swiss male medley swimmers Sportspeople from Zürich Virginia Cavaliers men's swimmers Swiss expatriate swimmers in the United States University of Virginia Darden School of Business alumni 21st-century Swiss sportspeople