Marcel Gery
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| National team |  Czechoslovakia Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | March 15, 1965 Smolenice, Trnava, Czechoslovakia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 84 kg (185 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Butterfly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | North York Aquatic Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Marcel Gery (in Czech and Slovak Marcel Géry; born March 15, 1965) is a former butterfly swimmer, who was born in Czechoslovakia and competed for the Czechoslovak national team in international competitions.
At the 1985 Summer Universiade, Gery won a bronze medal in the 200-metre freestyle.[1]
He later emigrated to Canada and competed for the Canadian national team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. There he won bronze medal with the men's 4×100-metres medley relay team, alongside Mark Tewksbury, Jonathan Cleveland and Stephen Clarke.[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ ISHOF list with all medalists in history Archived 2014-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Marcel Gery". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on December 4, 2016.
External links
[edit]- Marcel Gery at Swimming Canada
- Marcel Gery at World Aquatics
- Marcel Gery at Team Canada
- Marcel Gery at Olympics.com
- Marcel Gery at Olympic.org (archived)
- Marcel Gery at Olympedia
- Marcel Gery at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
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- 1965 births
- Living people
- People from Trnava District
- Sportspeople from the Trnava Region
- Czechoslovak emigrants to Canada
- Canadian male butterfly swimmers
- Canadian male freestyle swimmers
- European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Olympic bronze medalists for Canada
- Olympic bronze medalists in swimming
- Olympic swimmers for Canada
- Slovak male swimmers
- Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Canada
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Canada
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Canada
- Czechoslovak male swimmers
- Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming
- Summer World University Games medalists in swimming
- Slovak emigrants to Canada
- FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Czechoslovakia
- Medalists at the 1985 Summer Universiade
- Medallists at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
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