David Brandl

David Karl Brandl (born April 19, 1987) is an Austrian swimmer, who specialized in freestyle events.[1][2] He is a multiple-time Austrian champion, a four-time national record holder, and a current member of Perger Swimming Club (German: Perger Schwimmverein) in Perg. He also won a bronze medal, as a member of the Austrian swimming team, at the 2008 European Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands.[3]

David Brandl
Personal information
Full nameDavid Karl Brandl
National team Austria
Born (1987-04-19) 19 April 1987
Linz, Austria
Height1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight83 kg (183 lb)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesFreestyle
ClubPerger SV[1]
CoachHelge Gödecke[1]
Medal record
Men's swimming
Representing Austria
European Championships
2008 Eindhoven 4×200 m freestyle

Swimming career

Brandl qualified for the men's 400 m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by attaining a B-standard entry time of 3:51.35 from the Austrian Swimming Championships, coincidentally in his home city Linz.[4] He won the second heat by twenty-one hundredths of a second (0.21) ahead of France's Sébastien Rouault, with an Austrian record-breaking time of 3:48.63. Brandl, however, failed to advance into the final, as he placed twentieth out of 37 swimmers in the evening preliminaries.[5] Three days later, Brandl swam on the second leg of the men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay, recording his fastest individual-split time of 1:46.45. Brandl and his teammates Markus Rogan, Dominik Koll, and Florian Janistyn finished heat two in fifth place and ninth overall, for another Austrian record time of 7:11.45.[6]

At the 2009 FINA World Championships in Rome, Italy, Brandl set an Austrian record in the 400 m freestyle, lowering his time to 3:47.61. The following year, Brandl achieved a fifth-place finish in the same event at the 2010 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands, posting his best career time of 3:44.33.[7]

At the 2011 FINA World Championships in Shanghai, China, Brandl competed in two long-distance freestyle events, but achieved a slightly fair swimming performance. He finished twenty-fifth in the 400 m freestyle, and twenty-second in the 800 m freestyle, posting his slowest possible time of 3:54.73 and 8:05.66, respectively.[8][9]

Four years after competing in his first Olympics, Brandl qualified for his second Austrian team, as a 25-year-old, at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, by attaining a B-standard time of 1:48.95 in the men's 200 m freestyle.[10] He challenged seven other competitors on the third heat of his only individual event, including Canada's Blake Worsley and Israel's Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or. He came only in fifth place by 0.68 of a second ahead of Tunisia's Ahmed Mathlouthi, with a time of 1:49.00. Brandl, however, failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed twenty-seventh out of 41 swimmers in the morning's preliminary heats.[11] Two days later, Brandl reunited with his teammates Rogan, Janistyn, and Christian Scherübl for the men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay. Swimming the lead-off leg, Brandl recorded a time of 1:49.80, and the Austrian team went on to finish heat two in eighth place and sixteenth overall, for a total time of 7:17.94.[12]

References
  1. "David Brandl". London 2012. Archived from the original on 30 October 2012. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
  2. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "David Brandl". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
  3. "Bronze strahlte heller als Gold" [Bronze shining brighter than gold] (in German). Wiener Zeitung. 24 March 2008. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
  4. "Mirna Jukic Dominates Austria Championships". Swimming World Magazine. 10 February 2008. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
  5. "Men's 400m Freestyle Heat 2". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
  6. "Men's 4×200m Freestyle Relay Heat 2". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
  7. "European Short Course Championships: Evelyn Verraszto Posts Fastest 200 SCM IM in Textile". Swimming World Magazine. 25 November 2010. Archived from the original on 16 February 2013. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
  8. "2011 FINA World Championships (Shanghai, China) – Men's 400m Freestyle" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
  9. "2011 FINA World Championships (Shanghai, China) – Men's 800m Freestyle" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
  10. "Qualifying Athletes – Men's 200 m freestyle" (PDF). FINA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 November 2012. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
  11. "Men's 200m Freestyle Heat 3". London 2012. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
  12. "Men's 4×200m Freestyle Relay Heat 2". London 2012. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
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