KAWECKI Radoslaw

Date of Birth: 16 Aug 1991

Age: 29

Gender: Male

Place of birth: GLOGOW

Birth Country:

Poland

Place of residence : WARSAW

Residence Country:

Poland

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Swimming	Men's 200m Backstroke	6
	Men's 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay POL Poland

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Men's 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay - Heat 1	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Men's 200m Backstroke - Heat 2	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Men's 200m Backstroke Semifinal 1	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Men's 200m Backstroke Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	100Back	200Back	4x100Medley M
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	H (54.39)	H (1:57.61)	H (3:35.18)
2012	London, GBR	-	4th (1:55.59)	H (3:38.16)

World Championships

Year	Location	50Back	100Back	200Back	4x100Medley M
2019	Gwangju, KOR	-	H (54.76)	4th (1:56.37)	H (3:38.09)
2017	Budapest, HUN	-	H (54.52)	H (1:58.41)	-
2015	Kazan, RUS	-	H (54.20)	2nd (1:54.55)	8th (3:34.34)
2013	Barcelona, ESP	-	SF (53.82)	2nd (1:54.24)	H (DSQ)
2011	Shanghai, CHN	-	H (55.01)	5th (1:57.33)	8th
2009	Rome, ITA	H (26.08)	H (54.66)	7th (1:55.60)	-

European Championships

Year	Location	100Back	200Back	4x100Medley M
2020	Budapest, HUN	H (54.69)	6th (1:57.05)	-
2018	Glasgow, GBR	H (55.07)	2nd (1:56.07)	H (3:39.33)

Champions Swim Series overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2019

Year	200Back
2020	2 x 4th

Champions Swim Series - Ten best performances since 2019

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
4	2020	200m Backstroke	Beijing, CHN	2:01.95
4	2020	200m Backstroke	Shenzhen, CHN	2:01.25

World Championships Short Course

Year	Location	100Back	200Back
2018	Hangzhou, CHN	SF (50.43)	3rd (1:48.25)
2016	Windsor, ON, CAN	5th (50.22)	1st (1:47.63)

Legend
Free - Freestyle, Back - Backstroke, Breast - Breaststroke, Fly - Butterfly, IndMed - Individual Medley, SF - Semifinal, H - Heats, DNS - Did Not Start, M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed, DSQ - Disqualified, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not swim in final

Radek, Kawa (Facebook profile, 27 Feb 2020; radoslawkawecki.com.pl, 08 Sep 2015)

Cars. (polskieradio.pl, 30 Oct 2019)

Occupation:

Athlete, Serves in the Army

Partner Agata Korc, son Tadeusz

Languages spoken:

English, Polish

AZS AWF Warszawa [Poland]

Maciej Certa [club], POL; Robert Brus [national], POL; Pawel Slominski [personal], POL

Sporting relatives:

His partner Agata Korc represented Poland in swimming at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. (sport.se.pl, 03 Aug 2018; SportsDeskOnline, 09 Jun 2021)

He began swimming competitively at age 10 in Glogow, Poland. (polskieradio.pl, 04 Sep 2013)

"I was on holiday with my parents by the sea, and I felt then that I loved to be in the water." (polsatsport.pl, 31 Mar 2015)

To win a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (se.pl, 06 Dec 2019; polsatsport.pl, 15 Apr 2021)

He was named Athlete of the Year in Zielona Gora, Poland, in 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2014. (sportowa.zgora.pl, 07 Feb 2015; rzg.pl, 31 Jan 2014; eurosport.onet.pl, 13 Jan 2012; zielonagora.naszemiasto.pl, 12 Feb 2010)

General Interest

General
EXTRA MOTIVATION
He said that the birth of his first child in November 2017 was a breakthrough for his career. "I have an additional impulse, which every parent gets after the birth of their first child. It gave me extra motivation to work and to achieve more successes." Just a month later he won silver in the 200m backstroke at the 2017 European Short Course Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark. "It's one of the most important medals in my career. I won it by using my head, not muscles. Against all logic." (sport.pl, 13 Dec 2017; polsatsport.pl, 08 Dec 2017)

DEALING WITH DISAPPOINTMENT
He was unhappy with his performances at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and at the 2017 World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, and initially struggled to deal with the disappointment. "I guess that I was maybe too self-confident. I should be more focused on the way I should do a task, and not think about medals or records. But we all learn from our mistakes. Talking to a sports psychologist helped me a lot." (sport.se.pl, 03 Aug 2018)

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Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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