Barbora Choupenitch

MoP · CZE

Barbora is a swimmer from Czechia, an international traveller on the circuit and an international championship swimmer, whose official competitive record spans 12 seasons, 30 countries and 103 meets.

Her recorded career begins in 2015 in Praha Podolí, where she raced the 1500 butterfly in 18:17.52.

Her signature event is the 200 freestyle, the event she has raced the most, followed by the 100 freestyle and 50 freestyle. Freestyle is the backbone of the whole record: 99 meets and 255 recorded swims.

Her fastest 200 freestyle stands at 1:52.66, set in long course (50 m) at Plzenske Sprinty 2023.

She has raced at the Olympic Games level, between 2016 and 2024 (Olympic Games Rio 2016 and Youth Olympic Games Buenos Aires 2018). A representative mark at that level is 1:55.45 in the 200 freestyle, recorded in long course (50 m). She also appears in world championships, the World Cup circuit, continental championships, national championships and international meets.

The record runs unbroken from 2015 to 2026: 12 consecutive seasons without a single missing year. 2021 is the busiest season on record, with 65 verified individual swims.

She is a genuinely international swimmer: the official record spans 30 countries (Czechia, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Israel, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria, Croatia, the United Kingdom, Japan, Singapore, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, BUL, Canada, China, Denmark, South Korea, Luxembourg, Monaco, Romania, RUS, Serbia, Sweden, the United Arab Emirates and the United States), including 68 of 103 meets outside Czechia.

Those meets span 54 different venues (Plzen, Pardubice, Napoli and Prague…).

Still active: the directory includes official activity in the 2026 season. Latest competition: 2026 European Aquatics Championships (50m) in Paris, on August 16, 2026, with 1 swim: 4:08.16 in the 400 freestyle, all in long course (50 m). She holds 30 current event personal bests and 104 all-time PB improvements across 340 verified official swims in competitions governed by World Aquatics.

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