Yannick Käser

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Yannick Käser
Personal information
Nickname(s) Käsi, Pigeon[1]
Nationality   Switzerland
Born (1992-07-03) 3 July 1992 (age 31)
Rheinfelden, Aargau,
Switzerland
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Weight 73 kg (161 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Breaststroke
Club Limmat Sharks (SUI)[2]
College team Virginia Cavaliers (USA)[2]
Coach Dieter Sofka[2]

Yannick Käser (born July 3, 1992 in Rheinfelden, Aargau) is a Swiss swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.[2][3] He is a 7-time Swiss swimming champion, a multiple-time age-group record holder, and a member of the swimming team for Virginia Cavaliers. He is also currently trained for the Limmat Sharks in Zurich under his personal coach Dieter Sofka.[2][1]

Kaeser made his international debut at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore, where he placed sixth in the 200 m breaststroke with his personal best of 2:17.78.[4] In 2011, he cleared the 2:10 barrier to set a short-course Swiss record of 2:09.99 in the same stroke at the European Championships in Szczecin, Poland.[5]

Kaeser qualified for the men's 200 m breaststroke at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, by breaking a long-course Swiss record and eclipsing a FINA B-cut of 2:12.09 from the European Championships in Debrecen, Hungary.[6][7] He challenged seven other swimmers on the fourth heat, including top medal favorites Clark Burckle of the United States and Ryo Tateishi of Japan. Kaeser rounded out the field to last place by more than a second behind Hungary's Ákos Molnár in 2:13.49. Kaeser failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed twenty-fourth overall in the preliminary heats.[8][9]

Two weeks after the Olympics, Kaeser later admitted that he officially enrolled on a full academic scholarship at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, majoring in commerce.[10]

References

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