Alexandre Liess

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Alexandre Liess
Personal information
NicknameGex [1]
NationalityFlag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland
Born (1991-06-20) 20 June 1991 (age 32)
Geneva, Switzerland
Height1.81 m (5 ft 11+12 in)
Weight75 kg (165 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle, butterfly
ClubSSG Saar Max Ritter [1]
Coach Gennadi Touretski [1]

Alexandre Liess (born June 20, 1991) is a Swiss swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events. [1] [2] He is a 10-time Swiss swimming champion, and currently holds age group national records in the 200 m butterfly. Liess is a member of SSG Saar Max Ritter in Germany, under his Russian-born coach Gennadi Touretski, who is best known for training multiple Olympic medalists Alexander Popov and Michael Klim in the late 1990s. [1] [3]

Liess qualified for the men's 200 m butterfly at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, by breaking a Swiss record and eclipsing the FINA B-cut off time of 1:58.13 at the European Championships in Debrecen, Hungary. [4] [5] He challenged seven other swimmers in the second heat, including former semifinalist Hsu Chi-chieh of the Chinese Taipei. Liess was in last place by 0.16 of a second behind Canada's David Sharpe. Liess failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-third overall in the preliminaries. [6]

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References

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