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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 2008 Summer Olympics in
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Markus Rogan
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. He raced to fifth place and nineteenth overall by fifteen hundredths of a second (0.15) ahead of Japan's
Takashi Nakano
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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 2012 Summer Olympics in London by clearing a B-standard entry time of 2:00.89 in the Swimming at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 metre backstroke, men's 200 m backstroke. Stoss raced to second place in heat 1 by a single second behind Turkish swimmer and six-time Olympian Derya Büyükuncu 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.
References
External links
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
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