Alexandre Liess
Swimming, Olympic athlete
1991 –
Who is Alexandre Liess?
Alexandre Liess is a Swiss swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events. 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.
Liess qualified for the men's 200 m butterfly at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, by breaking a Swiss record and eclipsing a FINA B-cut of 1:58.13 from the European Championships in Debrecen, Hungary. He challenged seven other swimmers on the second heat, including former semifinalist Hsu Chi-chieh of the Chinese Taipei. Liess rounded out the field to last place by 0.16 of a second behind Canada's David Sharpe, outside his record time of 2:00.13. Liess failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-third overall in the preliminaries.
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