David Popovici Net Worth, Bio, Wiki, Age, Height, Weight, Family

David Popovici Net Worth, Ethnicity, Wiki, Bio, Age, Career: David Popovici is a competitive swimmer from Romania who specializes in freestyle events. He now holds the long course 100-metre freestyle world record and the junior world record in the long course 200-metre freestyle. In addition, he owns the junior world record in the short course 100m freestyle. Popovici won gold medals in both of his hallmark events at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships (Men’s 100-metre freestyle and Men’s 200-metre freestyle), being the first swimmer to accomplish so since Jim Montgomery in 1973.

Popovici was named Male Swimmer of the Year by both SwimSwam and Swimming World Magazine for his exploits during the 2022 long course season, in which he earned eleven gold medals and two silver medals. During that summer, he established an unprecedented level of dominance, particularly in the long course 100-meter freestyle, recording 13 of the world’s 19 fastest swims in 2022, while also becoming only the third swimmer in history to set a time under 1:43 in the long course 200-meter freestyle.

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David Popovici Net Worth, Bio, Wiki, Age, Height, Weight, Family

Name	David Popovici
Age	19 Year Old
Birth Date	September 15, 2004
Birth Place	Bucharest, Romania
Material status	Unmarried
Girlfriend Name	NA
Religion	Christian
Nationality	Romania
Father Name	Georgeta Popovici,
Mother Name	Mihai Popovici
Eye Color	Black
Hair Color	Black
Height	5 Feet 10 Inches
Weight	65 kg
Net Worth	$5.7 million

Who is David Popovici

David Popovici is a competitive swimmer from Romania who has competed in many championships across the world. This gifted young guy began swimming as a youngster not because he enjoyed it, but because he was developing scoliosis and physicians advised him that swimming would help him recover. He began swimming at the age of four, and by the age of nine, he had joined Aqua Team Bucharest, where he got training, and by the age of ten, he was receiving awards and breaking records.

David Popovici Age, Early Life, Education, Bio, Wiki

David Popovici was born on September 15, 2004, in Bucharest, Romania, to Mihai Popovici and Georgeta Popovici, making him 19 years old. He began training at Aqua Team Bucharest at the age of nine, under coach Adrian Rădulescu, a former swimmer with a PhD in athletic performance specializing in swimming. Popovici established his first junior national record in the 50 m backstroke at the age of ten, breaking a 24-year-old mark held by Dragoș Coman, a world bronze winner in 2003. At 14, he became the European Youth Olympic Festival’s fastest swimmer under 15 years old, swimming 100 meters in 49.82 seconds.

Career

Popovici qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics as the youngest member of the Romanian team by swimming below the Olympic Qualifying Time in the Men’s 100-meter freestyle event at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships in Budapest, which took place from 10 to 23 May 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He earned four gold in the 2021 European Junior Swimming Championships in Rome, where he broke the junior world record in the 100-meter freestyle twice.

Popovici participated in the 50-meter, 100-meter, and 200-meter freestyle individual events at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, which were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, after strong performances at the European Championships. Popovici won gold in the Men’s 200-metre freestyle event on November 6 with a timing of 1:42.12, beating his national record from the World Cup. He did not get to the finals of the Men’s 100m freestyle and Men’s 400m freestyle individual events.

Popovici established a new world junior record in the semifinals of the 100-meter freestyle on day two of the 2022 World Short Course Championships in Melbourne, Australia, with a time of 45.91 seconds, which was 0.20 seconds faster than Kliment Kolesnikov’s previous mark of 46.11. The next day, he finished thirty-first in the 400-meter freestyle in 3:58.48.