Paweł Korzeniowski

Paweł Korzeniowski

Paweł Korzeniowski (born 9 July 1985 in Oświęcim ) is a Polish swimmer.

Career

His first major success was winning the European Junior Championships 2003 200m butterfly. With the World Swimming Championships 2003 in Barcelona, he finished more than 1500 m freestyle the 8th Place.

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, he first appeared at the Olympic Games and launched the 200m butterfly and 400m freestyle in the disciplines. On August 16 he reached with the third best time, just behind Michael Phelps on the final 200 -meter butterfly and was in the final on 17 August fourth.

His final breakthrough into the world top he made at the World Swimming Championships in 2005 in Montreal, when he graduated from the heats as the fastest swimmer and had to stop in the final by anyone. He won the 200 m butterfly with a new Polish record and improved his personal best by one second. The only flaw of this World Championship title was that Michael Phelps did not compete at this distance. In the European Swimming Championships in Budapest 2006 Korzeniowski was about 200 m butterfly the great favorite and was superior to win the European title. Two years later, at the European Swimming Championships in Eindhoven in 2008 he became vice - European champion in his best discipline, the 200m butterfly behind Ioannis Drymonakos. However, after it became known that Drymonakos tested positive for the steroid trenbolone, Korzeniowski inherited the title of European Champion and European record. Because with his swum time of 01:54,38 min he also remained under the old European record of Franck Esposito.

Five months later, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, the Russian Nikolay Skvortsov could break this record. These games ended Korzeniowski about 200 m Schmeeterling in 01:54,60 min in sixth place and remained so through his personal best of Eindhoven.

In the final of the World Swimming Championships in 2009 he swam the 200 m butterfly in 01:53,23 min, setting a new Polish record and won the silver medal behind Michael Phelps.