Yannick Käser

Yannick Käser
Personal information
Nickname(s) Käsi, Pigeon[1]
Nationality   Switzerland
Born (1992-07-03) 3 July 1992
Rheinfelden, Aargau,
Switzerland
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 1 1⁄2 in)
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

  1. 1 2 "FSN Profile – Yannick Käser" (PDF). Schweizerischer Schwimmverband. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Yannick Käser". London 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
  3. ↑ "Yannick Käser". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
  4. ↑ "Youth Olympic Games: Andrii Govorov Smokes 50 Fly". Swimming World Magazine. 18 August 2010. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
  5. ↑ "2011 European Short Course Championships (Szczecin, Poland) – Men's 200m Breaststroke Heats" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
  6. ↑ "2012 LEN European Aquatics Championships (Debrecen, Hungary) – Men's 200m Breaststroke Semifinals" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
  7. ↑ "Qualifying Athletes – Men's 200 m breaststroke" (PDF). FINA. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
  8. ↑ "Men's 200m Breaststroke Heat 4". London 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
  9. ↑ "Schweizer Schwimmer ohne Chance auf Halbfinaleinzug" [Swiss swimmer with no chance of semis] (in German). Berner Zeitung. 31 July 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
  10. ↑ "Schweizer Schwimmer schwach" [Swiss swimmers are weak] (in German). Neue Zürcher Zeitung. 31 July 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
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