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Full name | Maciej Hreniak | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | Poland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Brodnica, Poland | 3 May 1989||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 77 kg (170 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | UKS Ruch Grudziądz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coach | Marek Dorywaiski | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Maciej Hreniak (born May 3, 1989) is a Polish swimmer, who specialized in long-distance freestyle events. [1] He represented his nation Poland at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has won a career total of five medals (four golds and one bronze) in a major international competition, spanning the two editions of the European Junior Championships (2006 and 2007), and the 2006 FINA Youth World Swimming Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [2] [3] Hreniak is a member of UKS Ruch Grudziądz, and is coached and trained by Marek Dorywaiski.
Hreniak competed for the Polish squad in the men's 1500 m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He posted a lifetime best of 15:10.78 to dominate the longest-distance freestyle and beat the insurmountable FINA A-cut (15:13.16) at the European Junior Championships a year earlier in Antwerp. [3] [4] Swimming as the fastest entrant in heat four, Hreniak managed to strengthen his pace from start to finish before taking the fourth spot in 15:16.16, just a wide five-second gap between him and the top three swimmers led by France's Nicolas Rostoucher. With only eight swimmers qualifying for the final, Hreniak stumbled down the leaderboard to twenty-fourth overall and did not advance past the prelims. [5]
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