David Karasek
David Karasek (born 6 October 1987 in Zurich) is a Swiss swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and individual medley events. He is a 10-time Swiss swimming champion, a multiple-time medley record holder, and a former member of the swimming team for Virginia Cavaliers under his personal coaches Mark Bernardino and Dirk Reinicke.Karasek qualified for the men's 200 m individual medley at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, by breaking a Swiss record and eclipsing a FINA B-cut of 2:01.79 from the national championships in Zurich. He challenged seven other swimmers on the second heat, including Olympic veterans Bradley Ally of Barbados, Martin Liivamägi of Estonia, and Raphaël Stacchiotti of Luxembourg. He edged out Tunisia's Taki M'rabet to pick up a seventh spot by 0.06 of a second, lowering his own Swiss record to 2:01.35. Karasek failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed twenty-eighth overall in the preliminaries.
Karasek is a commerce graduate at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he currently resides. In February 2013, Karasek admitted in his university interview that he is working on his master's degree of finance at the IE Business School in Madrid, Spain. Provided by Wikipedia
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8by Ladislav Stepanek, Dagmar Horakova, Marie Nakladalova, Lubica Cibickova, David Karasek, Josef ZadrazilGet full text
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9by Eva Karaskova, Maria Velganova-Veghova, Milos Geryk, Hana Foltenova, Veronika Kucerova, David KarasekGet full text
Published 2021-04-01
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10by Jaromira Gajdova, David Karasek, Dominika Goldmannova, Ondrej Krystynik, Jan Schovanek, Helena Vaverkova, Josef ZadrazilGet full text
Published 2017-09-01
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11by Ladislav Štěpánek, Dagmar Horáková, Ľubica Cibičková, Helena Vaverková, David Karásek, Marie Nakládalová, Jana ZapletalováGet full text
Published 2019-08-01
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12by Jiri Orsag, David Karasek, Milan Halenka, Helena Vaverkova, Jaromira Spurna, Veronika Kubickova, Jiri Lukes, Josef ZadrazilGet full text
Published 2019-06-01
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