Sebastian Stoss
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| Personal information | |
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| Nationality |
 Austria
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| Born |
14 January 1986 Cairo, Egypt |
| Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) |
| Weight | 93 kg (205 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Backstroke |
| Club | Eisenstädter SU |
| Coach | Andrzej Szarzynski |
Sebastian Stoss (born January 14, 1986 in Cairo, Egypt) is an Austrian swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events. He is a two-time Olympian, a multiple-time Austrian champion, and also, a current member of Eisenstädter Swimming Club (German: Eisenstädter Schwimmunion), under his personal coach Andrzej Szarzynski.
Stoss qualified for the men's 200 m backstroke at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by eclipsing a FINA A-standard entry time of 1:59.27 from the European Swimming Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands. He challenged seven other swimmers on the fourth heat, including three-time Olympians Răzvan Florea of Romania, Simon Dufour of France, and his teammate and two-time Olympic silver medalist Markus Rogan. He raced to fifth place and nineteenth overall by fifteen hundredths of a second (0.15) ahead of Japan's Takashi Nakano with a time of 1:59.44. Stoss also tied his overall position with Hungary's Roland Rudolf.
Four years after competing in his first Olympics, Stoss qualified for his second Austrian team, as a 26-year-old, at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London by clearing a B-standard entry time of 2:00.89 in the men's 200 m backstroke. Stoss raced to second place in heat 1 by a single second behind Turkish swimmer and six-time Olympian Derya Büyükuncu with a second-slowest time of 2:02.91. Stoss failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-fourth overall in the preliminary heats.
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