Kregor Zirk

Kregor Zirk
Personal information
Born (1999-07-03) 3 July 1999 (age 25)
Tartu, Estonia
Height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight78 kg (172 lb)
Sport
SportSwimming
ClubEnergy Standard International Swim Club // Ujumise Spordiklubi

Kregor Zirk (born 3 July 1999) is an Estonian swimmer. He is multi time Estonian swimming champion in both short and long course. He has broken Estonian age group and senior records around 300 times.[1]

Career

He competed in the men's 100 metre freestyle event at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships.[2][3] In the 2019 World Aquatic Championships he competed in the 200m and 400m Freestyle, as well as the 100m and 200m Butterfly, with his best placing being 19th in the 400m Freestyle.[4] During the competition he re-set his own Estonian records in the 200m and 400m Freestyle, and 200m Butterfly.

In the Autumn of 2019 he was member of the inaugural International Swimming League swimming for the Energy Standard International Swim Club, who won the team title in Las Vegas, Nevada, in December.[5][6] At the second stop in Naples, ITA he raced 1,150m which was the furthest racing distance of any male athlete. Across these two stops Zirk (2,250m), and his teammate Mary-Sophie Harvey (2,600m) had raced more than all other swimmers.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Biography at esbl.ee" (in Estonian). Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Heats results". FINA. Archived from the original on 9 October 2018. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  3. ^ "2017 World Aquatics Championships. Search via Athletes". Budapest 2017. Archived from the original on 2 August 2019. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  4. ^ "Swimrankings: FINA: 18th World Championships, Gwangju (KOR), 21-28 July 2019". www.swimrankings.net. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  5. ^ Tiisler, Alvar (23 December 2019). "Kregor Zirk lõpetas karjääri edukaima lühirajahooaja". ERR. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  6. ^ "Club Rosters – International Swimming League". Archived from the original on 22 October 2019. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  7. ^ "Comparing Indianapolis, Naples ISL: A Stats Grab Bag". SwimSwam. 17 October 2019. Retrieved 8 April 2020.