Tomislav Karlo

Tomislav Karlo (born 21 December 1970 in Split, Croatia)[1] is an Olympic backstroke swimmer from Croatia. He swam for Croatia at the 1996 Olympics.

Tomislav Karlo
Medal record
Men's Swimming
Representing  Croatia
European Championships (SC)
1996 Rostock 50 m backstroke
1996 Rostock 4x50 m freestyle
1999 Lisbon 50 m backstroke

In the early 1990s, he attended and swam for the USA's Brigham Young University.[2] During the second half of the 1990s he won several medals at the Short Course European Championships. In 1997 during the FINA World Cup meet in Paris, France he set a European Record in 50 m backstroke with the time 24.52.[3]

He swam for Croatia at the following international events:

  • Olympics: 1996
  • World Championships: 1998
  • Short Course Worlds: 1997
  • Short Course Europeans: 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000

As of 2011, he is the Secretary-General of the Croatian Swimming Federation.[4][5]

References

  1. Karlo's entry at sports-reference.com; retrieved 2011-06-24.
  2. Karlo's bio from the BYU Cougars website; retrieved 2011-06-24.
  3. "Hrvatska - zemlja svjetskih rekordera" (in Croatian). 23 January 2001. Archived from the original on 9 June 2016. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  4. Karlo's entry from the LEN directory; retrieved 2011-06-24.
  5. Croatia's federation information Archived 2012-04-02 at the Wayback Machine from the FINA member federation directory; retrieved 2011-06-24.


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