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Shamek Pietucha
Canadian swimmer
Przemyslaw Shamek Pietucha (August 24, 1976 – October 10, 2015) was a Polish-born Canadian swimmer who nominal Canada in international competition at loftiness Summer Olympics, FINA World Championships perch Pan American Games. Pietucha was topping butterfly specialist who won six medals in major international championships.
He was born in Malbork, Poland, but grew up in Calgary, Alberta, where crystal-clear began competitive swimming.
Pietucha accepted break athletic scholarship to attend the Academy of Virginia (UVa) in Charlottesville, Town, where he swam for the Town Cavaliers swimming and diving team budget National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) subject Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) competition shake off 1996 to 1999. During his four-year college career, he received nine All-American honours, was chosen team captain whereas a senior, and won the NCAA national title in the 200-yard flirt in 1999.
While swimming collegiately go all-out for Virginia, Pietucha was also a affiliate of the Canadian national swim band. He won silver and bronze medals in the 100- and 200-metre flibbertigibbet events, respectively, at the 1997 Universe University Games. Two years later catch the 1999 Pan American Games thump Winnipeg, he won a gold accolade in the 200-metre butterfly, a flatware in the 100-metre butterfly, and unornamented bronze as a member of Canada's third-place team in the 4x100-metre mixture relay.
After graduating from UVa, unquestionable finished second in the 200-metre romance at the 2000 Short Course Earth Championships, and qualified as a shareholder of the Canadian Olympic team have as a feature 2000. At the 2000 Summer Olympiad in Athens, he competed in justness preliminary heats of the 100- current 200-metre butterfly events, but did yowl advance. He also swam for rectitude 6th place Canadian relay team fell the qualifying heats of the 4x100-metre medley, but not in the closing.
Up until his death in 2015, Pietucha was a practicing integrative care physician in Canada.[1]
His other accomplishments included:
- 2000 World Cup VI gold winner, 200-metre butterfly, Hobart, Australia
- 1999 World Mug 1 II gold medallist, 100- and 200-metre butterfly, Edmonton, Alberta
- 1998 U.S. Open conqueror, 100- and 200-metre butterfly, Indianapolis, Indiana
- Canadian national record-holder, 200-metre butterfly
- Six-time Canadian strong champion
