Nationality Croatia Strokes Butterfly, medley Name Niksa Roki Height 1.9 m Siblings Antonio Roki | Sport Swimming Club Zagrebacki PK (CRO) Role Swimmer Weight 84 kg | |
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Born 8 February 1988 (age 36) ( 1988-02-08 ) Zagreb, SR Croatia,
SFR Yugoslavia College team Ohio State Buckeyes (USA) | ||
Niksa Roki (born February 8, 1988 in Zagreb) is a Croatian swimmer, who specialized in butterfly and individual medley events. He is a multiple-time Croatian champion and record holder in the butterfly (200 m) and the individual medley (both 200 and 400 m).
Roki qualified for two swimming events at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing by clearing FINA B-standard entry times of 2:01.56 (200 m butterfly) and 4:25.28 (400 m individual medley) from the Golden Bear meet in Zagreb. On the first day of the Games, Roki broke a Croatian record of 4:22.44 to touch the wall first in heat one of the 400 m individual medley, but finished only in twenty-third place. In the 200 m butterfly, Roki repeated his luck in the evening preliminaries, as he topped the first heat against India's Rehan Poncha, Peru's Emmanuel Crescimbeni, and Honduras' Javier Hernandez Maradiaga. He also broke a two-minute barrier by lowering his Croatian record to 1:59.58, which was nearly two seconds faster than his entry time. Roki failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-first overall in the preliminary heats.
Roki is previously a member of the swimming team for the Ohio State Buckeyes, and a graduate of biology at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio (2011). He was also named an honorable mention Scholar All-American by the National Swimming Coaches Association of America in 2009.