Bernt Lennart Zarnowiecki (born 26 May 1954) is a Swedish swimmer, international competititor and 1972 Munich Olympic participant in the freestyle relay. Zarnowiecki was born 26 May 1954 in

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, Sweden. He swam for the Simklubben S02 club, in his hometown of Gothenburg. Zarnowiecki won a bronze medal in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay at the 1974 European Aquatics Championships.

1972 Munich Olympics

Competing in the 200 metres individual freestyle relay event at the

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in Munich, he was eliminated in the preliminaries. Zarnowiecki placed 34th in the 200 with a time of 2:01.34. Being Jewish, he competed at the

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in Israel, and won three gold medals, including in the men's 400 m freestyle and the 1,500 m freestyle. His twin sister, Anita Zarnowiecki, also competed in freestyle swimming at the

and the ninth

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