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Dominik Koll (born December 24, 1984) is an Austrian former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle events. He is a two-time Olympian, a 41-time national titleholder, a 5-time long and short course Austrian record holder. He is a member of the swimming team for SK VÖEST Linz. He won a bronze medal, as a member of the Austrian swimming team, at the 2008 European Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Koll is one of few LGBT Olympians to come out as gay.〔(Coming-Out des österreichischen Schwimmers und EM-Medaillengewinner Dominik Koll )〕 ==Swimming career== Koll made his Olympic debut at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, competing in the men's 200 m freestyle. Koll cruised to fourth place and twenty-fifth overall by 0.53 of a second behind Latvia's Romāns Miloslavskis in 1:51.36. Four years after competing in his first Olympics, Koll qualified for his second Austrian team, as a 23-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He eclipsed a FINA A-cut time of 1:48.21 from the European Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands. In the 200 m freestyle, Koll set a new Austrian mark and recorded a sixteenth fastest time of 1:47.81 on the second night of preliminaries to secure a final spot for the semifinals. Followed by the next morning session, Koll failed to qualify for the final, as he finished his semifinal run with a fourth-slowest time of 1:47.87, just 0.06 of a second off his record from the preliminaries. Two days later, Koll swam on the start-off leg of the men's 4×200 m freestyle relay, recording his individual-split time of 1:47.72. Koll and his teammates David Brandl, Markus Rogan, and Florian Janistyn finished the second heat in fifth place and ninth overall, for another national record-breaking time of 7:11.45. Shortly after the Olympics, Koll set another national record in the 400 m freestyle at the 2008 European Short Course Swimming Championships, with a time of 3:39.82. The following year, he posted his fifth-career Austrian record time of 1:43.90 by finishing eighth in the preliminary heats of the men's 200 m freestyle at the European Short Course Swimming Championships in Istanbul, Turkey. Koll is a current member of the swimming team for Columbia Lions, and a film and economics major at Columbia University in New York, New York. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dominik Koll」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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