Christian Scherübl (born April 6, 1994 in

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) is an Austrian swimmer, who specialized in long-distance and relay freestyle events. Within a 16-year and younger age group, Scherubl set an Austrian record time of 4:05.20 in the boys' 400 m freestyle at the 2010 Geneva Long Course International Meet in

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. Scherubl is also a member of the swimming team for ATUS Graz, and is coached and trained by Christoph Schreiner. Scherubl represented

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at the

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, where he qualified for the men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay, along with his teammates Florian Janistyn,

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, and double Olympic silver medalist

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. Swimming the second leg, Scherubl recorded a split of 1:48.64, and the Austrian team went on to finish heat two in eighth place and sixteenth overall, for a total time of 7:17.94.

References

External links

Profile – Austrian Swimming Federation

1994 births Living people Olympic swimmers for Austria Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Austrian male freestyle swimmers Sportspeople from Graz 21st-century Austrian sportsmen {{Austria-swimming-bio-stub