Nationality Hungary Weight 78 kg (172 lb) Strokes Backstroke Name Roland Rudolf | Height 1.92 m (6 ft 3 ⁄2 in) Sport Swimming Club Kobanya SC (HUN) | |
Born 6 August 1985 (age 38) ( 1985-08-06 ) Budapest, Hungary | ||
Men's 200 Back-2007 Men's NCAA Championships
Roland Rudolf (born August 6, 1985) is a Hungarian swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events. He is an eight-time All-American swimmer, a multiple-time Hungarian titleholder in the age groups (1997–2004), and a two-time finalist at the 2002 European Junior Swimming Championships in Linz, Austria. Rudolf is also a member of the swimming team for the Florida Gators, and an economics graduate at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida.
Rudolf qualified for two swimming events at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by clearing a FINA A-standard entry time of 1:59.00 (200 m backstroke) from the USA Swimming Grand Prix in Columbus, Ohio. On the second night of the Games, Rudolf obtained a fifth spot and thirty-fifth overall in heat 2 of the 100 m backstroke by one tenth of a second (0.10) behind Iceland's Orn Arnarson in 56.25. In his second event, 200 m backstroke, Rudolf challenged seven other swimmers on the sixth heat, including his college teammate and top medal contender Ryan Lochte of the United States. He finished the race in last place by more than three seconds behind Lochte, outside his entry time of 1:59.44. Rudolf missed out the semifinals by a half-second deficit (0.50), as he shared a nineteenth-place tie with Austria's Sebastian Stoss in the preliminaries.