|
Ríkarður Ríkarðsson
Ríkarður Ríkarðsson (born November 2, 1977) is an Icelandic former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle and butterfly events.[1] Rikardsson competed only in two individual events at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He achieved FINA B-standards of 56.22 (100 m butterfly) from the U.S. National Championships in Federal Way, Washington, and 52.42 (100 m freestyle) from the European Championships in Helsinki, Finland.[2][3][4] In the 100 m freestyle, Rikardsson placed fifty-eighth on the morning prelims. Swimming in heat three, he picked up a fourth seed by 0.63 of a second behind winner Paul Kutscher of Uruguay in 52.85.[5][6][7] Two days later, in the 100 m butterfly, Rikardsson challenged seven other swimmers in heat two, including Guam's 28-year-old Daniel O'Keeffe and Bosnia's three-time Olympian Janko Gojković. He blasted a new Icelandic record of 56.11 to take a sixth spot and forty-eighth overall, finishing behind winner Gojkovic by almost two-thirds of a second (0.66).[8] References
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
