Matija "Matt" Jaukovic (born 17 November 1985) is an Australian and former Montenegrin competitive

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. He is a former

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-holder in the short course 50 metre butterfly. Over the course of his career he has also held

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, Australian national, and Australian All Comers records in the short course 50 metre butterfly as well as an Australian All Comers record in the 100 metre butterfly. He won a total of 10 medals in international competitions, all at the

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, seven of which were

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s and three of which were silver medals. Before competing representing Australia, he set a Montenegrin national record in the 100 metre backstroke.

Early life and education

Jaukovic was born in

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before moving to Australia to study law and gaining Australian citizenship."Law student makes mark in pool"
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Swimming career

2004 European Aquatics Championships

Jaukovic represented Montenegro, competing as part of the joined Montenegro and Serbia (SCG) team, at the

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. He set a Montenegrin national record in the prelims heats of the 100 metre backstroke with a time of 59.39 seconds, ranked 33rd overall and did not advance to the semifinals. LEN (10 May 2004)
"European Swimming Championships Madrid 2004: Men's 100m Backstroke Heats Total Ranking"
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''. Retrieved 23 October 2021.

2008 Australian Short Course Championships

At the 2008 Australian Short Course Swimming Championships held in

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in September, Jaukovic set a new Australian All Comers record in the 100 metre butterfly with his time of 50.37 seconds, breaking the approximately eight-year-old record set by

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at 50.71 seconds."Australian Short Course Championships: Matt Jaukovic Sets Australian All-Comers Record in 100 Fly"
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''. 21 September 2008. Retrieved 23 October 2021.

2008 FINA Swimming World Cup

Stop 3: Sydney

Jaukovic started competition in the 2008 FINA Swimming World Cup at the third stop of the competition circuit, swimming a time of 23.00 seconds in the prelims heats of the 50 metre butterfly and qualifying for the final ranking first overall.

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(25 October 2021)
"FINA / ARENA Swimming World Cup 2008 Sydney: Men's 50m Butterfly Heats Results Summary"
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''. Retrieved 24 October 2021. In the final of the 50 metre butterfly, Jaukovic won the

in the event with a

and World Cup record time of 22.50 seconds, finishing 0.99 seconds ahead of the next fastest swimmer, and earning 1039 points on the FINA scoring system for his swim.

(25 October 2008)
"FINA / ARENA Swimming World Cup 2008 Sydney: Men's 50m Butterfly Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 23 October 2021."Jaukovic breaks record, Mellouli wins three events at World Cup meet"
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''. 25 October 2008. His time of 22.50 seconds broke the world record set over two years earlier by Kaio Almeida of

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at 22.60 seconds.Keith, Braden (30 September 2020)
"World Champion, World Record Breaker Kaio Almeida Retires From Swimming"
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''. Retrieved 24 October 2021. With his world record in the 50 metre butterly, he became the third Australian swimmer to hold the world record in the event after

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and Geoff Huegill."World Cup, Sydney: Flash Matt Jaukovic Clips 50 Fly World Record"
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''. 25 October 2008. Retrieved 24 October 2021. The next day, 26 October, he competed in the prelims heats of the 100 metre butterfly, qualifying for the final ranking first with his time of 51.83 seconds.

(26 October 2008)
"FINA / ARENA Swimming World Cup 2008 Sydney: Men's 100m Butterfly Heats Results Summary"
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''. Retrieved 24 October 2021. He wrapped up his competition at the Sydney World Cup stop with a second gold medal, this time in the 100 metre butterfly where he finished first with a time of 50.50 seconds in the final.

(26 October 2008)
"FINA / ARENA Swimming World Cup 2008 Sydney: Men's 100m Butterfly Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 24 October 2021.

Stop 4: Singapore

After arriving in

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for the fourth stop of the World Cup, Jaukovic competed in his first event on the first day of competition, 1 November, advancing to the final of the 50 metre butterfly after swimming a 23.27 in the prelims heats.

(1 November 2008)
"FINA / ARENA Swimming World Cup 2008 Singapore: Men's 50m Butterfly Heats Results Summary"
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''. Retrieved 24 October 2021. Later the same day, he won the gold medal in the final with a time of 22.82 seconds, finishing over two tenths of a second ahead of silver medalist

Yevgeny Korotyshkin Yevgeny Yevgeniyevich Korotyshkin, occasionally spelled "Evgeny", () (born 30 April 1983) is a Russian swimmer from Moscow. He specialises in the butterfly stroke, winning the silver medal in the 100 m butterfly at the 2012 Summer Olympics ...

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(1 November 2008)
"FINA / ARENA Swimming World Cup 2008 Singapore: Men's 50m Butterfly Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 24 October 2021. The second and final day of competition in Singapore, Jaukovic qualified for the final of the 100 metre butterfly with his time of 51.90 seconds that ranked his fastest overall in the prelims heats.

(2 November 2008)
"FINA / ARENA Swimming World Cup 2008 Singapore: Men's 100m Butterfly Heats Results Summary"
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''. Retrieved 24 October 2021. In the final, he won the silver medal with his time of 51.46 seconds, only being out-touched at the wall by Yevgeny Korotyshkin.

(2 November 2008)
"FINA / ARENA Swimming World Cup 2008 Singapore: Men's 100m Butterfly Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 24 October 2021.

Stop 5: Moscow

Moving on to his third World Cup stop, and the fifth stop of the World Cup circuit this time held in

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, Russia, Jaukovic once again started competition on day one, 8 November, with the prelims heats of the 50 metre butterfly, finishing with a time of 23.29 seconds and qualifying for the final ranked first overall.

(8 November 2008)
"FINA / ARENA Swimming World Cup 2008 Moscow: Men's 50m Butterfly Heats Results Summary"
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''. Retrieved 24 October 2021. In the final he won his third gold medal of the World Cup circuit in the event, finishing less than two tenths of a second ahead of

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in a time of 23.12 seconds.

(8 November 2008)
"FINA / ARENA Swimming World Cup 2008 Moscow: Men's 50m Butterfly Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 24 October 2021. The next day Jaukovic ranked first across all prelims heats in the 100 metre butterfly with a swim of 51.45 seconds, advancing to the final later in the day.

(9 November 2008)
"FINA / ARENA Swimming World Cup 2008 Moscow: Men's 100m Butterfly Heats Results Summary"
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''. Retrieved 24 October 2021. Come race time in the final, he swam a 50.68 to earn the gold medal in the event, narrowly touching ahead of Yevgeny Korotyshkin by four hundredths of a second.

(9 November 2008)
"FINA / ARENA Swimming World Cup 2008 Moscow: Men's 100m Butterfly Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 24 October 2021.

Stop 6: Stockholm

On 11 November, the first day of competition of the World Cup stop in

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, Jaukovic ranked first in the prelims heats of the 50 metre butterfly with his time of 23.02, which was about a quarter of a second ahead of the second ranked swimmer,

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(11 November 2008)
"FINA / ARENA Swimming World Cup 2008 Stockholm: Men's 50m Butterfly Heats Results Summary"
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''. Retrieved 24 October 2021. In the final of the event later the same day, Jaukovic won his fourth gold medal in the 50 metre butterfly with a time of 22.85 seconds, making it his fourth consecutive gold medal in the race at

competition.

(11 November 2008)
"FINA / ARENA Swimming World Cup 2008 Stockholm: Men's 50m Butterfly Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 24 October 2021. The following day, 12 November, he advanced to the final of the 100 metre butterfly with a time of 51.72 seconds and overall number one ranking from the prelims heats.

(12 November 2008)
"FINA / ARENA Swimming World Cup 2008 Stockholm: Men's 100m Butterfly Heats Results Summary"
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''. Retrieved 24 October 2021. Jaukovic won the silver medal in the final with a personal best time of 50.31 seconds and was flanked in finishing by two Russian swimmers, with Yevgeny Korotyshkin taking the gold medal and Nikolay Skvortsov winning the bronze medal.

(12 November 2008)
"FINA / ARENA Swimming World Cup 2008 Stockholm: Men's 100m Butterfly Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 24 October 2021.

Stop 7: Berlin

At the seventh and final stop of the 2008 World Cup circuit, held in

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, Jaukovic commenced competition on the first day, 15 November, finishing ranked first in the prelims heats of the 50 metre butterfly with a time of 23.10 seconds.

(15 November 2008)
"FINA / ARENA Swimming World Cup 2008 Berlin: Men's 50m Butterfly Heats Results Summary"
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''. Retrieved 24 October 2021. In the final he went five-for-five, winning his fifth gold medal out of a possible five gold medals, in the 50 metre butterfly with a time of 22.58 seconds that was just eight hundredths of a second off his own world record time, two hundredths of a second faster than the former world record of 22.60 seconds by Kaio Almeida, and three tenths of a second faster than second-place finisher Johannes Dietrich of Germany.

(15 November 2008)
"FINA / ARENA Swimming World Cup 2008 Berlin: Men's 50m Butterfly Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 24 October 2021. On 16 November in his last event of the World Cup circuit, the 100 metre butterfly, Jaukovic ranked second overall in the prelims heats with a time of 51.81 seconds and advanced to the final.

(16 November 2008)
"FINA / ARENA Swimming World Cup 2008 Berlin: Men's 100m Butterfly Heats Results Summary"
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''. Retrieved 24 October 2021. In the evening final, he won his third silver medal of the World Cup circuit in the event with a time of 50.70 seconds and finished only behind Yevgeny Korotyshkin who won the gold medal in the event with a new World Cup record time of 49.74 seconds.

(16 November 2008)
"FINA / ARENA Swimming World Cup 2008 Berlin: Men's 100m Butterfly Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 24 October 2021.

2009 Australian Short Course Championships

In August, at the 2009 Australian Short Course Swimming Championships in

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, Jaukovic lowered his personal best time in the 50 metre butterfly to a 22.28 and setting new

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, and Australian All Comers records in the event."Event Results 2009 Telstra Australian Shortcourse Championships: Men's Open 50m Butterfly Final Results"
''myswimresults.au''. August 2009. Retrieved 24 October 2021."Matt Jaukovic: Results"
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''. Retrieved 24 October 2021. The Oceanian and Australian records remained unbroken for over 12 years until

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swam representing Australia at the

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and broke the records with a time of 22.24 seconds.Edmund, Emma (24 October 2021)
"Kyle Chalmers Narrowly Breaks Australian Record In 50 Fly"
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''. Retrieved 24 October 2021.

Career best times

World records

Representing Australia

Short course metres (25 m pool)

Continental and national records

Representing Montenegro

Long course metres (50 m pool)

Representing Australia

Short course metres (25 m pool)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jaukovic, Matt 1985 births Living people Australian male butterfly swimmers World record setters in swimming Montenegrin emigrants to Australia Naturalised citizens of Australia Australian people of Montenegrin descent 21st-century Australian sportsmen

Early life and education

Swimming career

2004 European Aquatics Championships

2008 Australian Short Course Championships

2008 FINA Swimming World Cup

Stop 3: Sydney

Stop 4: Singapore

Stop 5: Moscow

Stop 6: Stockholm

Stop 7: Berlin

2009 Australian Short Course Championships

Career best times

World records

Representing Australia

Short course metres (25 m pool)

Continental and national records

Representing Montenegro

Long course metres (50 m pool)

Representing Australia

Short course metres (25 m pool)

See also

References

External links