 Milorad Čavić at the 2008 Beijing Olympics |
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| Full name | Milorad Čavić | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Mike, Čavke, Čava, Majkula | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Serbian, American | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stroke(s) | Butterfly, freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | California | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | May 31, 1984 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Anaheim, California, United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 215 pounds (98 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Milorad Čavić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милорад Чавић; born on May 31, 1984 in Anaheim, California) is a Serbian swimmer.
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A citizen of both the United States and Serbia, he attended Tustin High School in California, where he set four CIF records and a national high school mark in the 50 yd freestyle.[1] While swimming for the University of California, Berkeley and training with Mike Bottom, Čavić set a new school and Pac-10 record in the 100 yd butterfly (45.44 s).
Representing Serbia at the European Short Course Swimming Championships in Dublin 2003, Čavić won the gold medal in 100 m butterfly and set a new world record. He also won a silver medal in 50 m freestyle. Čavić defended his European 100 m title on subsequent short-course championships in Helsinki 2006 (finishing 50.63), Debrecen 2007 (finishing at 50.53) and Rijeka 2008 (finishing at 49.19 and setting a new European record)[2]. He also took silver on 50 m butterfly in Rijeka.[3]
On December 14, 2007 Čavić defended his European championship in the 100 m butterfly in Helsinki, finishing at 50.63 seconds. On December 14, 2007, the sprinter defended his European championship again in the 100 m butterfly in Debrecen, finishing at 50.53 seconds.
In 2008, Čavić won the European championship in the 50 m butterfly, setting the new European record (23.11) in Eindhoven, Holland - a result briefly quashed when the European Swimming Federation (LEN) immediately disqualified the swimmer for wearing a T-shirt at the medals ceremony that read “Kosovo is Serbia”.[4]
At the 2009 World Aquatics Championships, Čavić won gold in the 50 m butterfly [5] and broke the 100 m butterfly world record in the semifinals finishing in 50.01 seconds.[6] But that record was broken in the finals. Čavić won silver in the finals.
At the age of 16, Čavić represented Yugoslavia at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia in the 100 m butterfly.
| Event | Results | Time |
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| 100 m butterfly | DSQ |
Čavić represented Serbia and Montenegro at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece in the 100 m butterfly.
| Event | Results | Time |
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| 100 m butterfly | Semifinal ranking - 16th | 53.12 |
Čavić was leading in a semifinal of the 100 metre butterfly, but right after the turn at the halfway point of the race, his suit opened at the neck and sucked in water, causing Čavić to finish last.
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Competitor for  Serbia |
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| 2008 Beijing - Men's swimming | ||
| Silver | 100 m butterfly | 50.59 s |
Čavić represented Serbia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, People's Republic of China in two swimming events. Even though he qualified for the 100 metre freestyle semi-final Čavić withdrew in order to prepare for the 100 metre butterfly.
On August 14, 2008 at the Beijing Olympics, Čavić broke the 100 meter butterfly Olympic Record during the preliminary heats, finishing ahead of Michael Phelps and also recorded the fastest time in the semi-finals. Čavić came in second to Phelps by 1/100 of a second in the final, which was also the first medal for Serbia. It was Phelps' seventh gold medal of the Games. The Serbian team initially challenged the result but FINA later confirmed the finish. Čavić later wrote in his blog: "People, this is the greatest moment of my life. If you ask me, it should be accepted and we should move on. I’ve accepted defeat, and there’s nothing wrong with losing to the greatest swimmer there has ever been".[7] Yet, even after this statement, Cavic has claimed that he won.[8] A year after the race, Omega said that Cavić finished the 100 m butterfly race first.[9][10]
| Records | ||
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Preceded by Michael
Phelps |
Men's 100
metre butterfly world record holder (long course) July 31, 2009 – August 1, 2009 |
Succeeded by Michael
Phelps |
Preceded by Rafael Muñoz Perez |
Men's 100
metre butterfly European record holder (long course) July 31, 2009 – |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
Preceded by Yevgeny
Korotyshkin |
Men's 100
metre butterfly European record holder (short course) December 12, 2008 – |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
Preceded by Thomas
Rupprath |
Men's 100
metre butterfly world record holder (short course) December 12, 2003 – March 26, 2004 |
Succeeded by Ian
Crocker |
Preceded by Andriy
Serdinov |
Men's 100
metre butterfly European record holder (long course) August 16, 2008 – April 25, 2009 |
Succeeded by Rafael Muñoz Perez |
| Preceded by Sergiy
Breus |
Men's 50
metre butterfly European record holder (long course) March 19, 2008 – April 5, 2009 |
Succeeded by Rafael Muñoz Perez |
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