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Full name | Martin Škacha | ||||||||||||||
National team | Czech Republic | ||||||||||||||
Born | Polička, Czechoslovakia | 28 October 1983||||||||||||||
Height | 1.94 m (6 ft 4+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 89 kg (196 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||
Club | Kometa Brno | ||||||||||||||
Coach | Ondřej Butir | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Martin Škacha (born 28 October 1983) is a Czech former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle events. [1] He won a bronze medal in the 100 m freestyle (51.52) at the 2001 European Junior Swimming Championships in Valletta, Malta. [2] Skacha is also a member of the swimming team for Kometa Brno, and is trained by head coach Ondřej Butir.
Škacha qualified for the men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay, as a member of the Czech Republic team, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. [3] [4] Teaming with Michal Rubáček, Květoslav Svoboda, and Josef Horký in heat two, Skacha anchored the last 50 metres to finish the race with a split of 1:52.35, but the Czechs settled only for seventh place and thirteenth overall in a final time of 7:26.26. [5] [6]