Mateusz Sawrymowicz (born 22 April 1987 in Lublin) is a Polish swimmer who specializes in the 1500 m freestyle. Having won in Melbourne in 2007 he became the first person to beat Grant Hackett at the 1500 m in the World Championships for 10 years.^[1] Later in the year in Debrecen, he became the first person to beat Yury Prilukov in the European Short Course Championships for 5 years.

Mateusz Sawrymowicz

Mateusz Sawrymowicz in 2012
Personal information
Full name	Mateusz Sawrymowicz
Nationality	Poland
Born	(1987-04-22) 22 April 1987 (age 36) Lublin, Poland
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	75 kg (165 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	freestyle
Medal record Men's swimming Representing  Poland World Championships (LC) 2007 Melbourne 1500 m freestyle World Championships (SC) 2008 Manchester 1500 m freestyle European Championships (LC) 2008 Eindhoven 1500 m freestyle European Championships (SC) 2007 Debrecen 1500 m freestyle 2011 Szczecin 1500 m freestyle 2006 Helsinki 1500 m freestyle 2005 Trieste 1500 m freestyle

Sawrymowicz originally touched 4th at the 2012 World Short Course Championships in Istanbul, and was later awarded a bronze medal after the disqualification of Mads Glaesner, the gold medalist, for an anti-doping violation.

However, upon appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, Glaesner's 1500-meter freestyle gold medal was reinstated based on the fact that a test after that race, two days after his initial positive test following the 400-meter free, was clean. He still forfeited the 400-meter freestyle bronze, which he did not appeal. This means that Sawrymowicz's official position was returned to 4th place in the 1500-meter freestyle.^[2]