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Nickname(s)
  
Gex

Club
  
SSG Saar Max Ritter

Weight
  
75 kg

Strokes
  
Freestyle, butterfly

Height
  
1.8 m


Sport
  
Role
  
Swimmer

Nationality
  
Switzerland

Name
  
Alexandre Liess

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Born
  
20 June 1991 (age 33) (
1991-06-20
)

Alexandre Liess (born June 20, 1991 in Geneva) is a Swiss swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events. He is a 10-time Swiss swimming champion, and currently holds age group national records in the 200 m butterfly. Liess is a member of SSG Saar Max Ritter in Germany, under his Russian-born coach Gennadi Touretski, who is best known for training multiple Olympic medalists Alexander Popov and Michael Klim in the late 1990s.

Liess qualified for the men's 200 m butterfly at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, by breaking a Swiss record and eclipsing a FINA B-cut of 1:58.13 from the European Championships in Debrecen, Hungary. He challenged seven other swimmers on the second heat, including former semifinalist Hsu Chi-chieh of the Chinese Taipei. Liess rounded out the field to last place by 0.16 of a second behind Canada's David Sharpe, outside his record time of 2:00.13. Liess failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-third overall in the preliminaries.

References

Alexandre Liess Wikipedia


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