Milorad Čavić

Milorad Čavić ( born May 31, 1984 in Anaheim, California) is a Serbian swimmer.

  • 2.1 Records

Career

Milorad Čavić went for the first time at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney for his country at the start, where he took over 50 m freestyle. In the European Short Course Championship 2003 in Dublin, he set a new world record in the butterfly with 50.02 s. This was set on 24 March 2004 by Ian Crocker. Furthermore Čavić five times European Champion.

At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 he won the silver medal in the 100m butterfly, where he was beaten by only a hundredth of a second from Michael Phelps.

Scandal

A year later, on 6 August 2009 Omega admitted that Čavić to a hundredth of a second ahead of Michael Phelps at the target was at the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 in the 100 meter butterfly, Phelps was allowed to keep the gold medal anyway.

At the award ceremony for his success over 50 meters butterfly at the European Swimming Championships 2008 Čavić wore a T - shirt with the inscription " Косово је Србија " ( "Kosovo is Serbia "). This earned him a disqualification for the remaining contests, because of the Disciplinary Committee of the European Swimming League ( LEN) the evaluated as a violation of the Statute. Čavić had as a consequence a penalty of $ 10,800 to pay, but was allowed to keep his medal and the European record.

Achievements

European Junior Championships 2001

  • 50m Butterfly, 2nd place
  • 100 m butterfly, 1st place

World Championships Barcelona 2003

European Swimming Championships Short Course Dublin 2003

2004 Athens Olympic Games

  • 50 m freestyle, 31st place - 23.05 s
  • 100 m freestyle, 19th place - 49.74 s
  • 100 m butterfly, 16th Place - 52.44 s (4; qual. ), 53.12 s ( Halbf. )

World Cup Montreal 2005

  • 50 m butterfly, 10th Place - 24.03 s ( Halbf. ), 24.22 s ( 16; Halbf. )
  • 100 m butterfly, 10th Place - 53.06 s ( Halbf. ), 53.07 s (4; qual. )

World Championships Melbourne 2007

  • 50 m butterfly, 6th place 23.70 s national record
  • 100 m butterfly, 6th place - 52.53 s with 51.70 s ( Qual ) national record

European Swimming Championships 2008

  • 50 m butterfly, 1st in 23.11 s European record

Olympic Games Beijing 2008

Short Course European Championships 2008 Rijeka

World Swimming Championships Rome 2009

  • 50 m butterfly, 1st in 22.67 s
  • 100 m butterfly, 2nd in 49.95 s European record

Records

2003 European Short Course Swimming Championships 2006 European Short Course Swimming Championships 2007 European Short Course Swimming Championships 2008 European Short Course Swimming Championships Omega SA Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics B92 Geoff Huegill Serhiy Breus Hans Lampe Thomas Rupprath Andriy Serdinov
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