Mitja Zastrow
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Men's swimming | ||
| Representing the Netherlands | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
| Silver medal – second place | 2004 Athens [1] | ×ばつ 100 metre freestyle relay">×ばつ100 m freestyle |
| World Championships (SC) | ||
| Representing Germany | ||
| Bronze medal – third place | 2000 Athens | ×ばつ100 m freestyle |
| Representing the Netherlands | ||
| Bronze medal – third place | 2008 Manchester | ×ばつ100 m freestyle |
| European Championships (LC) | ||
| Representing the Netherlands | ||
| Bronze medal – third place | 2008 Eindhoven | ×ばつ100 m freestyle |
| European Championships (SC) | ||
| Gold medal – first place | 2005 Triest | ×ばつ50 m freestyle |
Mitja Kolia Zastrow (born 7 March 1977) is a Dutch swimmer and an Olympic medalist. Originally from Germany, Zastrow was born and raised in Wuppertal, near Düsseldorf. He became a naturalized Dutch citizen in July 2003, after a conflict with the German Swimming Association. He currently trains at PSV Eindhoven in Eindhoven, Netherlands, with his coach, Torsten Petsch.
Zastrow's swimming career has been filled with a series of unfortunate injuries. In 2001, despite being the 100 meter freestyle champion in Germany, a hand injury kept him from attending the FINA World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan.
In 2003, at the FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain, Zastrow participated in his first World Championship as a Dutch citizen. However, due to a back injury, he was unable to swim in most of the events that he had qualified for.
Zastrow qualified fifth out of one hundred Dutch swimmers to participate in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. Along with Pieter van den Hoogenband, Johan Kenkhuis, and Klaas-Erik Zwering, he was a member of the Dutch ×ばつ100 meter freestyle relay team, which won silver by clocking in at 3:14.36.
Zastrow's specialty is actually the backstroke. He has been the Dutch record holder in the 50 meter backstroke since 2003.
Zastrow has a Chinese ideograph tattooed on his left shoulder. The character is "猴" and means "monkey."
See also
[edit ]External links
[edit ]- (in Dutch) Zwemkroniek online profile
References
[edit ]- ^ "2004 Olympic Games swimming results". CNN. Archived from the original on May 9, 2006. Retrieved 2007年07月22日.
- 1977 births
- Living people
- Dutch male backstroke swimmers
- Dutch male freestyle swimmers
- Male backstroke swimmers
- Olympic swimmers for the Netherlands
- Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands
- Dutch people of German descent
- Sportspeople from Wuppertal
- Swimmers from Düsseldorf (region)
- Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
- European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists in swimming
- 21st-century Dutch sportsmen