Jere Hribar

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Jere Hribar
Personal information
National team Flag of Croatia.svg Croatia
Born (2004-01-19) 19 January 2004 (age 20) [1]
Split, Croatia
Height6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
Medal record
Men's swimming
Representing Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia
Event1st2nd3rd
World Junior Championships 011
European Junior Championships 001
Total012
World Junior Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2022 Lima 100 m freestyle
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2022 Lima50 m freestyle
European Junior Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2022 Otopeni 50 m freestyle

Jere Hribar (born 19 January 2004) is a Croatian competitive swimmer. He is the 2022 World Junior Championships silver medalist in the 100-metre freestyle and bronze medalist in the 50-metre freestyle. At the 2022 European Junior Championships, he won the silver medal in the 50-metre freestyle.

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Background

Hribar was born 19 January 2004 in Croatia. [1] In the autumn of 2022, he committed to attending Louisiana State University for college and competing for the LSU Tigers swim team beginning in the autumn of 2023. [2]

Career

2021–2022

At the 2021 European Junior Swimming Championships, held in July in Rome, Italy, Hribar helped an achieve a seventh-place finish in the final of the 4×100-metre freestyle relay, swimming the first leg of the relay in 51.00 seconds to contribute to the final time of 3:22.64, and placed eighth in the final of the 50-metre freestyle with a time of 23.03 seconds and 21st in the preliminary heats of the 100-metre freestyle with a time of 51.22 seconds. [3] The following year, at the 2022 European Junior Swimming Championships held in July in Otopeni, Romania, he swam a time of 50.44 seconds for the first leg of the 4×100-metre freestyle relay in the final before the second leg swimmer left early with a -0.04 reaction time and the final relay time of 3:21.63 was deemed ineligible by LEN officials and the relay results were disqualified. [4] [5] Day two of competition, he helped achieve an eighth-place finish and set a new Croatian record in the final of the 4×100-metre mixed freestyle relay, contributing a time of 50.27 seconds for the first leg of the relay to the final mark of 3:34.28. [5] Two days later, he won the silver medal in the 50-metre freestyle with a time of 22.55 seconds in the final, after swimming a personal best time of 22.32 seconds in the preliminaries one day prior. [5] [6] In his final two events, he tied Davide Passafaro of Italy for eleventh-place in the semifinals of 100-metre freestyle with a time of 50.73 seconds on day five and was disqualified in the preliminaries of the 4×100-metre medley relay on day six. [5]

2022 World Junior Championships

2022 World Junior Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 100 m freestyle 49.37
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 50 m freestyle 22.55

Starting his competition on day three at the 2022 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships, held in August and September in Lima, Peru, Hribar ranked second in the morning preliminary heats of the 50-metre freestyle with a time 22.42 seconds and qualified for the semifinals. [7] For the evening semifinals, he finished in a time of 22.35 seconds and qualified for the final ranking first. [8] [9] In the event final the following day, he finished 0.59 seconds behind Diogo Ribeiro of Portugal and 0.04 seconds behind Nikolas Antoniou of Cyprus with a time of 22.55 seconds to win the bronze medal. [10] [11] For the morning preliminary heats of his second and final event, the 100-metre freestyle, the following morning, he qualified for the semifinals with a time of 50.29 seconds and overall seventh-rank. [12] He swam a 50.12 in the evening semifinals, qualifying for the final ranking third. [13] [14] In the final, he won the silver medal with a personal best time of 49.37 seconds, finishing 2.24 seconds behind gold medalist David Popovici of Romania and 0.54 seconds ahead of silver medalist Nikolas Antoniou. [15] [16] [17]

2022 Swimming World Cup

On the first day of the 2022 FINA Swimming World Cup in Berlin, Germany, Hribar swam a personal best time of 21.84 seconds in the preliminary heats of the 50-metre freestyle and placed 20th. [18] Day two, he placed 30th in the preliminary heats of the 100-metre freestyle with a personal best time of 48.64 seconds, which was 2.18 seconds behind first-ranked Maxime Grousset of France. [19] The third and final day, he achieved a third personal best time, this time in the 50-metre butterfly preliminary heats, where he placed 44th with a 24.14. [20]

International championships (50 m)

Meet50 freestyle100 freestyle4×100 freestyle4×100 medley4×100 mixed freestyle
EJC 2021 8th21st7th
EJC 2022 Silver medal icon.svg11thDSQDSQ8th
WJC 2022 Bronze medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svg

Personal best times

Long course metres (50 m pool)

EventTimeMeetLocationDateRef
50 m freestyle22.32h 2022 European Junior Championships Otopeni, Romania 7 July 2022 [5]
100 m freestyle49.37 2022 World Junior Championships Lima, Peru 4 September 2022 [15] [17]

Legend: h – preliminary heat

Short course metres (25 m pool)

EventTimeMeetLocationDateRef
50 m freestyle21.84h 2022 Swimming World Cup Berlin, Germany 21 October 2022 [18]
100 m freestyle48.64h 2022 Swimming World Cup Berlin, Germany 22 October 2022 [19]
50 m butterfly24.14h 2022 Swimming World Cup Berlin, Germany 23 October 2022 [20]

Legend: h – preliminary heat

National records

Long course metres (50 m pool)

No.EventTimeMeetLocationDateAgeStatusRef
14×100 m mixed freestyle3:34.28 2022 European Junior Championships Otopeni, Romania 6 July 202218Current [5]

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