Siladji breaks record to qualify for 2016 Summer Olympics

EINDHOVEN - Serbian swimmer Caba Siladji met the qualification standard for a swimming event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, after breaking the national record in the men's 100m breaststroke with a time of 59.79 seconds at the 2015 Swim Cup in Eindhoven Friday.

Siladji will swim at the Olympic Games for the third time, after competing in Beijing 2008 and London 2012 events.

Siladji is now the third Serbian athlete to travel to Rio, after Andrea Arsovic and Jasna Sekaric qualified as members of the Serbia Shooting Team.

Photo Tanjug, M. Jelesijevic (illustration, archive)