Luka Mladenovic
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National team | Austria | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | [2] Austria | 27 May 2004|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Breaststroke, individual medley | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | SU Generali Salzburg[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coach | Plamen Ryaskov[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Luka Mladenovic (born 27 May 2004) is an Austrian competitive swimmer. At the 2022 World Junior Championships, he won the gold medal and world junior title in the 100-metre breaststroke, the silver medal in the 200-metre breaststroke, and the bronze medal in the 50-metre breaststroke. He is a 2022 European Junior Championships silver medalist in the 200-metre breaststroke.
In 2025 Luka Mladenovic will visit the Arizona State University in Tempe near Phoenix in the United States of America.
Background
[edit]Mladenovic was born 27 May 2004 in Austria.[2] He trains with SU Generali Salzburg swim club, in Salzburg, under the guidance of coach Plamen Ryaskov.[1]
Career
[edit]2021
[edit]On 17 May, Mladenovic placed 61st in the 100-metre breaststroke with a time of 1:03.10 at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships, contested at Danube Arena in Budapest, Hungary.[3] Two days later, he placed 41st in the 200-metre breaststroke with a time of 2:16.87.[4] At the 2021 European Junior Swimming Championships, held approximately two months later in Italy, Rome, he placed fourth in the 100-metre breaststroke, fourth in the 200-metre breaststroke, eleventh in the 4×100-metre medley relay, seventeenth in the 4×100-metre mixed medley relay, 53rd in the 50-metre butterfly, and did not start the 50-metre breaststroke.[5]
2022
[edit]2022 European Junior Championships
[edit]At the 2022 European Junior Swimming Championships, held in July in Otopeni, Romania, Mladenovic won the silver medal in the 200-metre breaststroke with a time of 2:13.21, finishing less than two-tenths of a second behind gold medalist Lucien Vergnes of France.[6][7] He also placed seventh in the final of the 100-metre breaststroke with a 1:02.48, placed seventh in the 200-metre individual medley in the semifinals with a personal best time of 2:03.79 before withdrawing from competing in the final, and placed fifteenth in the 50-metre breaststroke with a time of 28.68 seconds.[7]
2022 European Aquatics Championships
[edit]At the 2022 European Aquatics Championships, with pool swimming competition at Foro Italico in mid-August, Mladenovic started off with a 30th-place ranking in the preliminary heats of the 100-metre breaststroke on day one with a time of 1:02.46.[8] Two days later, he achieved a 23rd-place ranking in the 200-metre breaststroke with a time of 2:15.98, which was the fastest time by an Austrian in the event at the 2022 Championships.[9] On 15 August, two days later, he ranked 40th in the preliminary heats of the 50-metre breaststroke with a time of 29.06 seconds and did not advance to the semifinals.[10] For his final event of the championships, he placed 19th in the preliminary heats of the 200-metre individual medley one day later with a 2:06.00, ranking as the fastest Austrian in the event.[11]
2022 World Junior Championships
[edit]2022 World Junior Championships | ||
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100 m breaststroke | 1:01.30 | |
200 m breaststroke | 2:12.94 | |
50 m breaststroke | 28.32 |
Following his results at the 2022 European Junior Swimming Championships, Mladenovic entered to compete the same repertoire, 50-metre breaststroke, 100-metre breaststroke, 200-metre breaststroke, and 200-metre individual medley, at the 2022 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships, held in August and September in Lima, Peru.[12] On the morning of the second day of competition, he placed twelfth in the 200-metre individual medley, finishing with a time of 2:04.90.[13] Later in the day, in the evening finals session, he won the gold medal in the 100-metre breaststroke with a personal best time of 1:01.30, finishing 0.34 seconds ahead of silver medalist Uroš Živanović of Serbia and 1.50 seconds ahead of Filip Urbanski of Poland.[14][15][16][17] Two days later, he won the silver medal in the 200-metre breaststroke, achieving a second-place finish with a personal best time of 2:12.94, which was 0.13 seconds behind gold medalist Asahi Kawashima of Japan.[18][19] In the final of his fourth and final event, the 50-metre breaststroke on 4 September, he won the bronze medal in the 50-metre breaststroke, this time finishing 0.62 seconds behind gold medalist Uroš Živanović of Serbia with a personal best time of 28.32 seconds.[20][21] After the Championships, when he returned to his training base in Austria, Mladenovic received a welcome home reception at his swim club.[1]
2023
[edit]At the 2023 Salzburg Indoor Short Course Swimming Championships in February in Hallein, Mladenovic won ten titles in individual events, which spanned freestyle (100-metre, 200-metre, 400-metre), backstroke (100-metre), breaststroke (50-metre, 100-metre, 200-metre), butterfly (50-metre), and individual medley (100-metre, 200-metre) disciplines.[22][23] Three months later, he placed fifth in the a-final of the 200-metre breaststroke at the 2023 Mare Nostrum stop in Canet-en-Roussillon, France, finishing in a time of 2:14.49.[24]
International championships (50 m)
[edit]Meet | 50 breaststroke | 100 breaststroke | 200 breaststroke | 50 butterfly | 200 medley | 4×100 medley | 4×100 mixed medley |
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Junior level | |||||||
EJC 2021 | DNS | 4th | 4th | 53rd | 11th | 17th | |
EJC 2022 | 15th | 7th | 7th (sf,WD) | ||||
WJC 2022 | 12th | ||||||
Senior level | |||||||
EC 2020 | 61st | 41st | |||||
EC 2022 | 40th | 30th | 23rd | 19th |
Personal best times
[edit]Long course meters (50 m pool)
[edit]Event | Time | Meet | Location | Date | Ref | |
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50 m breaststroke | 28.32 | 2022 World Junior Championships | Lima, Peru | 4 September 2022 | [20] | |
100 m breaststroke | 1:01.30 | 2022 World Junior Championships | Lima, Peru | 31 August 2022 | [14] | |
200 m breaststroke | 2:12.94 | 2022 World Junior Championships | Lima, Peru | 2 September 2022 | [18] | |
200 m individual medley | 2:03.79 | sf | 2022 European Junior Championships | Otopeni, Romania | 6 July 2022 | [7] |
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Rausch, Stephanie (12 September 2022). "Feierlicher Empfang für Goldschwimmer Luka Mladenovic" (in German). Salzburger Nachrichten. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
- ^ a b "Luka Mladenovic". FINA. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
- ^ LEN (17 May 2021). "Hungary 2020 LEN European Aquatics Championships: Results 100m Breaststroke Men Preliminary". Microplus Informatica. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
- ^ LEN (19 May 2021). "Hungary 2020 LEN European Aquatics Championships: Results 200m Breaststroke Men Preliminary". Microplus Informatica. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
- ^ LEN (12 July 2021). "LEN European Junior Swimming Championships Rome - Italy: Complete Results". Microplus Informatica. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
- ^ Race, Retta (8 July 2022). "Back Half Splits Helped Fuel Multiple Wins On Day 4 Of European Juniors". SwimSwam. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
- ^ a b c LEN (10 July 2022). "Romania 2022 LEN European Junior Swimming Championships: Complete Results Book". Microplus Informatica. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
- ^ LEN (11 August 2022). "European Aquatics Championships Roma 2022: Results 100m Breaststroke Men Preliminary". Microplus. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
- ^ LEN (13 August 2022). "European Aquatics Championships Roma 2022: Results 200m Breaststroke Men Preliminary". Microplus. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
- ^ LEN (15 August 2022). "European Aquatics Championships Roma 2022: Results 50m Breaststroke Men Preliminary". Microplus. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
- ^ LEN (16 August 2022). "European Aquatics Championships Roma 2022: Results 200m Individual Medley Men Preliminary". Microplus. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
- ^ "Luka Mladenovic geht mit großen Erwartungen in die Junioren-WM" (in German). Salzburger Nachrichten. 29 August 2022. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
- ^ FINA (31 August 2022). "8th FINA World Junior Swimming Championships Lima (PER): Men's 200m Individual Medley Heats Results Summary". Omega Timing. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
- ^ a b FINA (31 August 2022). "8th FINA World Junior Swimming Championships Lima (PER): Men's 100m Breaststroke Final Results". Omega Timing. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
- ^ "Luka Mladenovic ist Junioren-Weltmeister über 100 Meter Brust" (in German). Salzburger Nachrichten. 1 September 2022. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
- ^ "Gab's noch nie! - Mladenovic ist Salzburgs allererster" (in German). Kronen Zeitung. 1 September 2022. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
- ^ "Gold bei der Junioren-WM: Schwimmer Mladenovic badet im Erfolg" (in German). Kurier. 1 September 2022. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
- ^ a b FINA (2 September 2022). "8th FINA World Junior Swimming Championships Lima (PER): Men's 200m Breaststroke Final Results". Omega Timing. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
- ^ Rieder, David (2 September 2022). "World Junior Championships – Day Four Finals: Ksawery Masiuk Among Five Swimmers Earning Second Gold Medal". Swimming World. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
- ^ a b FINA (4 September 2022). "8th FINA World Junior Swimming Championships Lima (PER): Men's 50m Breaststroke Final Results". Omega Timing. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
- ^ "Junior swimmers shine in final night of Championships". FINA. 5 September 2022. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
- ^ "Luka Mladenovic räumt in Salzburg zehn Titel ab" (in German). salzburg24.at. 5 February 2023. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
- ^ "Offene Salzburger Kurzbahn Landesmeisterschaft Short Course (25m) Hallein/Rif (AUT) 4 - 5 Feb 2023: Men". swimrankings.net. 5 February 2023. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
- ^ "Canet-en-Roussillon: Day 2 Results (2023) | Mare Nostrum Swim Tour". Mare Nostrum. 14 May 2023. Retrieved 14 May 2023.