SWIMMER STATS
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Career Highlights
Finished fifth in the 100m breast at the 2011 ConocoPhillips National Championships ... Helped the 4x100m free-relay to a Gold medal finish at the 2010 FINA Short Course World Championships ... Won his first U.S. National Championship in 2010 … Represented Bulgaria at the 2008 and 2004 Olympics ... Became Northwestern’s first breaststroke champion since Don Horn in 1933, claiming his first individual
NCAA Championship and the NCAA record in 2007 with a time of 51.56
Olympics History
COMPETING FOR BULGARIA -- 2008: 11, 200m BR; 20m 200m IM; 24, 200m BR ... 2004: 18, 200m IM; 31, 200m FR; 31, 200m FR
World Champs History
2007: 6, 100m BR: 12, 200m IM; 18, 50m BR; 18, 400m IM
Pan Pacs History
2010: 8, 50m BR
SC Worlds History
2010: Gold 4x100 Med-R
Duel in the Pool History
2009: Gold, 100m/200m BR
U.S. Nationals History
2010: 1, 100m BR; 6, 200m BR; 2, 400m MR-R ... 2007: 4, 100m BR; 9, 200m BR; 15, 400m IM
U.S. Nationals History
2011 Winter- Bronze 100 Br
Short Course National Championships
2009: 1, 100y/200y BR; 4, 200y IM ... 2008: 1, 100y/200y BR
NCAA History
2007(Sr): 1, 100y BR(AR)/400y MR-R; 4, 200y FR-R; 6, 200y IM
Briefly
Two time Duel in the Pool member
Fun Facts
High School
Champaign Centennial 03'
College
Northwestern '08
College Major
Human Biology
Future Professional Aspirations
Fitness trainer
Job Outside of Swimming
Fitness trainer
Parents
Plamen and Kalinka... father was a 1980 Olympian
Hobbies Outside the Pool
Urban training, piano
Charities
Tesfaye, for raising money in Ethopia to rebuild a school
Training Stats
Trains 6,000 yards/meters a day, 3 hours per day, 7 days a week
More
Competed for his native Bulgaria at the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games ... he changed his sports citizenship from Bulgaria to the United States in 2009