René Kolonko

René Kolonko
Personal information
Full name René Kolonko
National team  Germany
Born (1981-08-18) 18 August 1981
Leipzig, East Germany
Height 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in)
Weight 87 kg (192 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Breaststroke
Club SC Riesa
Coach Uwe Neumann

René Kolonko (born August 18, 1981) is a German former swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.[1] He is a member of the swimming team for SC Riesa an der Elbe in Riesa, and is coached and trained by Uwe Neumann.[2]

Kolonko represented Germany at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he competed in the men's 100 m breaststroke.[3] He had just barely advanced into the semifinals, after securing the sixteenth spot from the morning's preliminary heats, clocking at 1:02.09. Kolonko failed to advance into the final, but lowered his Olympic entry time (1:01.88) by six hundredths of a second (0.06), finishing his semifinal run with a time of 1:01.82.[4]

References

  1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill. "René Kolonko". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  2. Päsler, Uwe (8 August 2005). "René Kolonko fährt heute zum "Studenten-Olympia"" [Rene Kolonko travels today to the "Student-Olympia"] (in German). Sächsische Zeitung. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  3. "DSV schlägt 35 Athleten für Athen vor" [Swimming: DSV sent 35 athletes for Athens] (in German). Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 9 June 2004. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  4. "Men's 100m Breaststroke Semifinal 1". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 14 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.


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