Ádám Madarassy
Hungarian swimmer
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Ádám Madarassy (born March 14, 1985, in Budapest) is a Hungarian swimmer who specialized in butterfly events and was a 2008 Olympic participant.[1]
Hungary| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Ádám Madarassy |
| National team | Hungary |
| Born | 14 March 1985 Budapest, Hungary |
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) |
| Weight | 78 kg (172 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Butterfly |
| Club | Ferencvárosi TC |
| College team | University of Louisville (U.S.) |
| Coach | Arthur Albiero (U. of Louisville) |
Madarassy swam for the Ferencvárosi TC Club in Ferencvárosi, and was a member of the swimming team for the Louisville Cardinals under Coach Arthur Albiero. Completing his studies, he was a management graduate at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky.[1][2]
2008 Beijing Olympics
Madarassy competed for Hungary in the men's 100 m butterfly at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Leading up to the Games, he registered a time of 54.28 to eclipse the FINA B-cut (54.70) by 0.42 of a second at the USA Swimming Grand Prix in Columbus, Ohio.[3][4] Madarassy threw down his lifetime best of 53.93 to hit the wall with a fourth-place finish in heat three, trailing winner Rimvydas Šalčius of Lithuania by just more than a second. Madarassy failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed fiftieth out of 66 swimmers in the prelims.[5]
