Antti Kasvio
Finnish swimmer
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Full name | Antti Alexander Kasvio | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Finland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1973-12-20) 20 December 1973 (age 50) Espoo, Finland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Laaksolahden Viri | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Antti Alexander Kasvio (born 20 December 1973 in Espoo) is a former freestyle swimmer from Finland who won the bronze medal in the 200 m freestyle at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. Together with Jani Sievinen he was Finland's leading swimmer in the 1990s.
At the 1993 European Swimming Championships (long course) in Sheffield, Kasvio won the 200 and the 400 m freestyle. A year later, at the 1994 World Aquatics Championships in Rome, Italy, he won the world title in the 200 m freestyle and captured the silver medal in the 400 m freestyle.
References
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Antti Kasvio". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.
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World long-course champions in men's 200 m freestyle
- 1973: Jim Montgomery (USA)
- 1975: Tim Shaw (USA)
- 1978: Bill Forrester (USA)
- 1982: Michael Gross (FRG)
- 1986: Michael Gross (FRG)
- 1991: Giorgio Lamberti (ITA)
- 1994: Antti Kasvio (FIN)
- 1998: Michael Klim (AUS)
- 2001: Ian Thorpe (AUS)
- 2003: Ian Thorpe (AUS)
- 2005: Michael Phelps (USA)
- 2007: Michael Phelps (USA)
- 2009: Paul Biedermann (GER)
- 2011: Ryan Lochte (USA)
- 2013: Yannick Agnel (FRA)
- 2015: James Guy (GBR)
- 2017: Sun Yang (CHN)
- 2019: Sun Yang (CHN)
- 2022: David Popovici (ROU)
- 2023: Matt Richards (GBR)
- 2024: Hwang Sun-woo (KOR)
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