Dominik Straga

Who is Dominik Straga?

Dominik Straga is a Croatian swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events. He is a multiple-time Croatian champion and a three-time record holder in the long and short course freestyle, and butterfly. He also won two bronze medals in the same stroke at the 2006 European Junior Swimming Championships in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, with respective times of 24.62 and 54.51.

Straga qualified for the men's 200 m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by finishing third and attaining a B-standard entry time of 1:51.53 from the Croatian Open Championships in Dubrovnik. He challenged seven other swimmers on the third heat including Papua New Guinea's Ryan Pini, who later finished eighth in the 100 m butterfly final. Straga cruised to second place by 0.59 of a second behind Pini, breaking a Croatian record time of 1:49.63. Straga failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-seventh out of 58 swimmers in the preliminary heats.