Patrick Sebastian Dinu (born 12 June 2005) is a Romanian competitive swimmer specializing in sprint freestyle events. At the 2022 World Junior Championships, he won a gold medal in the 4×100-metre freestyle relay, a silver medal in the 4×100-metre mixed freestyle relay, and placed fifth in the final of the 100-metre freestyle. He is a gold medalist in the 4×100-metre freestyle relay at the European Junior Swimming Championships in 2022 and silver medalist in 2021, as well as a silver medalist in the 4×100-metre mixed freestyle relay and in 2022.
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Full name | Patrick Sebastian Dinu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | (2005-06-12) 12 June 2005 (age 17)[1][2] Constanța, Romania | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | CS Farul Constanța[2][3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coach | Răzvan Florea[4] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Dinu was born 12 June 2005 and started competitive swimming at six years of age as part of the Atena Sport Club Constanța.[1][2][3] He is coached by Olympian, and fellow Romanian, Răzvan Florea and trains with and competes for CS Farul Constanța.[2][4]
As part of the 4×100-metre freestyle relay at the 2021 European Junior Swimming Championships, held in July in Rome, Italy, Dinu swam a time of 51.04 seconds for the anchor leg of the relay, contributing to a final time of 3:19.93, and helping win the silver medal.[4][5] In his other events at the Championships, he placed 31st in the 100-metre freestyle with a 51.45, 42nd in the 50-metre breaststroke with a time of 30.04 seconds, and 51st in the 50-metre freestyle with a 24.08.[5] The following year, he lowered his split time in the 4×100-metre freestyle relay to a 49.72 at the 2022 European Junior Swimming Championships, held in July in Otopeni, helping win the gold medal with a final time of 3:18.93.[6][7][8] In the 4×100-metre mixed freestyle relay, he won a silver medal, splitting a 50.03 for the second leg of the relay to help finish second in a Romanian record time of 3:29.35.[7][8] In the 100-metre freestyle, he placed tenth in the semifinals with a time of 50.72 seconds and in the 50-metre freestyle, he placed 26th with a time of 23.50 seconds.[7]
For the 2022 European Aquatics Championships, with pool swimming competition held in August at Foro Italico in Rome, Italy, Dinu qualified to compete in both the 100-metre freestyle individual event and the 4×100-metre freestyle relay.[8] In the preliminary heats of the 100-metre freestyle on the second day of competition, he placed 53rd overall with a time of 50.59 seconds and did not advance to the semifinals.[9] Two days later, he helped place eleventh in the 4×100-metre freestyle relay, contributing a split time of 50.20 seconds for the third leg of the relay to the final time of 3:17.94.[10][11]
2022 World Junior Championships | ||
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![]() | 4×100 m freestyle | 3:18.84 |
![]() | 4×100 m mixed freestyle | 3:30.39 |
At the 2022 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships, held in August and September 2022 in Lima, Peru, Dinu entered to compete in two individual events, the 50-metre freestyle and the 100-metre freestyle, and Romania announced relay teams for the 4×100-metre freestyle relay and 4×100-metre mixed freestyle relay.[12] On the first day of competition, he split a 49.50 for the anchor leg of the 4×100-metre freestyle relay in the final, helping finish first in a time of 3:18.84 to win the gold medal.[3][13][14][15][16][17] Two days later, he placed fourteenth in the semifinals of the 50-metre freestyle with a time of 23.41 seconds after swimming a personal best time of 23.31 seconds in the preliminary heats.[16][18][19] In his second event of the day, the 4×100-metre mixed freestyle relay, he contributed a split time of 50.17 seconds for the second leg of the relay, helping win the silver medal in a time of 3:30.39.[3][16][17][20][21][22] For his final event, he placed fifth in the final of the 100-metre freestyle on the sixth and final day of competition with a personal best time of 50.09 seconds, finishing 2.96 seconds behind gold medalist and fellow Romanian David Popovici after advancing to the final from the semifinals with a time of 50.22 seconds.[23][24]
Meet | 50 freestyle | 100 freestyle | 50 breaststroke | 4×100 freestyle | 4×100 mixed freestyle |
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EJC 2021 | 51st | 31st | 42nd | ![]() | |
EJC 2022 | 26th | 10th | ![]() | ![]() | |
WJC 2022 | 14th | 5th | ![]() | ![]() | |
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EC 2022 | 53rd | 11th |
Event | Time | Meet | Location | Date | Ref | |
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50 m freestyle | 23.31 | h | 2022 World Junior Championships | Lima, Peru | 1 September 2022 | [18] |
100 m freestyle | 50.09 | 2022 World Junior Championships | Lima, Peru | 4 September 2022 | [23] |
No. | Event | Time | Meet | Location | Date | Age | Status | Ref |
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1 | 4×200 m freestyle | 7:28.43 | 2022 Multinations Junior Swimming Meet | Kranj, Slovenia | 9 April 2022 | 16 years, 301 days | Current | [25] |
2 | 4×100 m mixed freestyle | 3:29.35 | 2022 European Junior Championships | Otopeni | 6 July 2022 | 17 years, 24 days | Current | [7][8] |