club birth_place weight height birth_date article_title strokes name
genève natation 1885 -lrb- sui -rrb- morges , switzerland 75 kg lb 0 on 1.84 0 on 26 february 1984 jonathan massacand
 backstroke jonathan massacand
jonathan massacand

jonathan massacand -lrb- born february 26 , 1984 in morges -rrb- is a swiss swimmer , who specialized in backstroke events .
he is a two-time current swiss record holder for both 100 and 200 m backstroke .
massacand also won a gold medal , as a local favorite , in the same discipline at the 2012 zurich international meet , claiming a personal best of 56.49 seconds .
massacand qualified for two swimming events at the 2008 summer olympics in beijing , by clearing fina b-standard entry times of 55.24 -lrb- 100 m backstroke -rrb- and 2:00.16 -lrb- 200 m backstroke -rrb- from the european championships in eindhoven , netherlands .
in the 100 m backstroke , massacand challenged seven other swimmers on the third heat , including olympic veterans derya büyükuncu of turkey and sung min of south korea .
he finished ahead of buyukuncu in fifth place and twenty-seventh overall by 0.21 of a second , breaking a swiss record of 55.21 seconds .
in his second event , 200 m backstroke , massacand knocked off greece 's dimitrios chasiotis to last place on the same heat by half a second -lrb- 0.50 -rrb- in 2:01.80 .
his olympic time in the 200 , however , was 1.64 seconds slower than his record set earlier at the european championships .
massacand failed to advance into the semifinals , as he placed thirty-second overall in the preliminary heats .
