Career
He was born as a son of a military officer Zbigniew Maliński and started swimming aged 5. Between 1989 and 1991 he was training at the Mission Viejo Nadadores club in the United States. In 1997 he returned to the United States to study in a college at Fort Pierce, Florida, and then at the University of Alabama.
He then moved to Iceland, where he works as a swimming coach and competes in the masters category.