Sławomir Wolniak (born January 23, 1988) is a National Record holding swimmer from
Poland
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who specializes in the
breaststroke
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. He is a four-time Polish national champion, having captured the 50m and 100m breaststrokes in 2007, and the 100m and 200m breaststroke in 2009.
[Results from the 2009 Polish Championships]
May 21–25 in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Poland.
He is a member of Poland's swim team for the
2009 World Championships, in Rome, Italy at the end to July.
[Polish team roster for 2009 Worlds]
published by the Polish Swimming Federation ( Polski Związek Pływacki); retrieved 2009-07-25.
He swam for Poland at the
2007 World Championships in
Melbourne, Australia
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in the
100 m
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and
200 m breaststrokes. He did not advance out of the preliminaries in either, finishing 29th in the 100 and 17th in the 200—just missing advancing in the 200 by 0.04 seconds.
National records
Wolniak set the
Polish Records in the 50m, 100, and 200m breaststrokes at the 2009 Polish Nationals (50m) in
Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Poland, May 21–24.
[Listing of records set at 2009 Polish Championships]
published by OmegaTiming Poland (timer for the meet); retrieved 2009-07-25. Ironically, Wolniak's record-setting effort in the 50 breast, came in the consolation final, as he failed to qualify for the “A” final.
References
1988 births
Polish male breaststroke swimmers
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Polish sportsmen
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