The Austrian Swimming Federation announced the team of 18 athletes they will be sending to the European Junior Championships which will be held in Dordrecht from July 7th-14th. The team includes:
- Caroline Pilhatsch
- Sebastian Steffan
- Sara Rashid Taghipour
- Filip Milcevic
- Hannah Malits
- Luke Ambros
- Annabelle Schwaiger
- Heiko Gigler
- Coni Rott
- Sascha Subarsky
- Esther Uhl
- Felix Auböck
- Julia Kukla
- Dominik Hitzinger
- Denise Hollow
- Patrick Staber
- Lena Opatril
- Christoph Margotti
The Austrians have two junior swimmers ranked in the top five in Europe for their age group:
- Sascha Subarsky – 4th – 100 butterfly
- Felix Auböck – 5th – 400 freestyle
They also announced four athletes for the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing from August 16th-28th.
The athletes include:
- Sascha Subarsky
- Sebastian Steffan
- Lena Kreund
- Claudia Hufnagl
Subarsky and Auböck are great talents. I just noticed a couple of days ago that Auböck is from austria and not from germany, because he swims for a german club and is in the german rankings:)