Luka Mladenovic

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Luka Mladenovic
Personal information
National team Flag of Austria.svg Austria
Born (2004-05-27) 27 May 2004 (age 20) [1]
Austria
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Breaststroke, individual medley
ClubSU Generali Salzburg [2]
CoachPlamen Ryaskov [2]
Medal record
Men's swimming
Representing Flag of Austria.svg  Austria
Event1st2nd3rd
World Junior Championships 111
European Junior Championships 010
Total121
World Junior Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Lima 100 m breaststroke
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2022 Lima200 m breaststroke
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2022 Lima50 m breaststroke
European Junior Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2022 Otopeni 200 m breaststroke

Luka Mladenovic (born 27 May 2004) is an Austrian competitive swimmer. At the 2022 World Junior Championships, he won the gold medal and world junior title in the 100-metre breaststroke, the silver medal in the 200-metre breaststroke, and the bronze medal in the 50-metre breaststroke. He is a 2022 European Junior Championships silver medalist in the 200-metre breaststroke.

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In 2025 Luka Mladenovic will visit the Arizona State University in Tempe near Phoenix in the United States of America.

Background

Mladenovic was born 27 May 2004 in Austria. [1] He trains with SU Generali Salzburg swim club, in Salzburg, under the guidance of coach Plamen Ryaskov. [2]

Career

2021

On 17 May, Mladenovic placed 61st in the 100-metre breaststroke with a time of 1:03.10 at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships, contested at Danube Arena in Budapest, Hungary. [3] Two days later, he placed 41st in the 200-metre breaststroke with a time of 2:16.87. [4] At the 2021 European Junior Swimming Championships, held approximately two months later in Italy, Rome, he placed fourth in the 100-metre breaststroke, fourth in the 200-metre breaststroke, eleventh in the 4×100-metre medley relay, seventeenth in the 4×100-metre mixed medley relay, 53rd in the 50-metre butterfly, and did not start the 50-metre breaststroke. [5]

2022

2022 European Junior Championships

At the 2022 European Junior Swimming Championships, held in July in Otopeni, Romania, Mladenovic won the silver medal in the 200-metre breaststroke with a time of 2:13.21, finishing less than two-tenths of a second behind gold medalist Lucien Vergnes of France. [6] [7] He also placed seventh in the final of the 100-metre breaststroke with a 1:02.48, placed seventh in the 200-metre individual medley in the semifinals with a personal best time of 2:03.79 before withdrawing from competing in the final, and placed fifteenth in the 50-metre breaststroke with a time of 28.68 seconds. [7]

2022 European Aquatics Championships

At the 2022 European Aquatics Championships, with pool swimming competition at Foro Italico in mid-August, Mladenovic started off with a 30th-place ranking in the preliminary heats of the 100-metre breaststroke on day one with a time of 1:02.46. [8] Two days later, he achieved a 23rd-place ranking in the 200-metre breaststroke with a time of 2:15.98, which was the fastest time by an Austrian in the event at the 2022 Championships. [9] On 15 August, two days later, he ranked 40th in the preliminary heats of the 50-metre breaststroke with a time of 29.06 seconds and did not advance to the semifinals. [10] For his final event of the championships, he placed 19th in the preliminary heats of the 200-metre individual medley one day later with a 2:06.00, ranking as the fastest Austrian in the event. [11]

2022 World Junior Championships

2022 World Junior Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 100 m breaststroke 1:01.30
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 200 m breaststroke 2:12.94
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 50 m breaststroke 28.32

Following his results at the 2022 European Junior Swimming Championships, Mladenovic entered to compete the same repertoire, 50-metre breaststroke, 100-metre breaststroke, 200-metre breaststroke, and 200-metre individual medley, at the 2022 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships, held in August and September in Lima, Peru. [12] On the morning of the second day of competition, he placed twelfth in the 200-metre individual medley, finishing with a time of 2:04.90. [13] Later in the day, in the evening finals session, he won the gold medal in the 100-metre breaststroke with a personal best time of 1:01.30, finishing 0.34 seconds ahead of silver medalist Uroš Živanović of Serbia and 1.50 seconds ahead of Filip Urbanski of Poland. [14] [15] [16] [17] Two days later, he won the silver medal in the 200-metre breaststroke, achieving a second-place finish with a personal best time of 2:12.94, which was 0.13 seconds behind gold medalist Asahi Kawashima of Japan. [18] [19] In the final of his fourth and final event, the 50-metre breaststroke on 4 September, he won the bronze medal in the 50-metre breaststroke, this time finishing 0.62 seconds behind gold medalist Uroš Živanović of Serbia with a personal best time of 28.32 seconds. [20] [21] After the Championships, when he returned to his training base in Austria, Mladenovic received a welcome home reception at his swim club. [2]

2023

At the 2023 Salzburg Indoor Short Course Swimming Championships in February in Hallein, Mladenovic won ten titles in individual events, which spanned freestyle (100-metre, 200-metre, 400-metre), backstroke (100-metre), breaststroke (50-metre, 100-metre, 200-metre), butterfly (50-metre), and individual medley (100-metre, 200-metre) disciplines. [22] [23] Three months later, he placed fifth in the a-final of the 200-metre breaststroke at the 2023 Mare Nostrum stop in Canet-en-Roussillon, France, finishing in a time of 2:14.49. [24]

International championships (50 m)

Meet50 breaststroke100 breaststroke200 breaststroke50 butterfly200 medley4×100 medley4×100 mixed medley
Junior level
EJC 2021 DNS4th4th53rd11th17th
EJC 2022 15th7thSilver medal icon.svg7th (sf,WD)
WJC 2022 Bronze medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svg12th
Senior level
EC 2020 61st41st
EC 2022 40th30th23rd19th

Personal best times

Long course meters (50 m pool)

EventTimeMeetLocationDateRef
50 m breaststroke28.32 2022 World Junior Championships Lima, Peru 4 September 2022 [20]
100 m breaststroke1:01.30 2022 World Junior Championships Lima, Peru 31 August 2022 [14]
200 m breaststroke2:12.94 2022 World Junior Championships Lima, Peru 2 September 2022 [18]
200 m individual medley2:03.79sf 2022 European Junior Championships Otopeni, Romania 6 July 2022 [7]

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