Olga Gnedovskaya

Olga Gnedovskaya
Personal information
Full name Olga Gnedovskaya
National team  Uzbekistan
Born (1989-08-15) 15 August 1989
Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 60 kg (132 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Backstroke

Olga Gnedovskaya (Uzbek: Ольга Гнедовская; born August 15, 1989) is an Uzbek former swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events.[1] Gnedovskaya qualified for the women's 100 m backstroke, as Uzbekistan's youngest swimmer (aged 14), at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She cleared a FINA B-standard entry time of 1:05.42 from the Russian Championships in Moscow.[2] She challenged seven other swimmers in heat two, including Kazakhstan's Anastassiya Prilepa, who shared the same age with Gnedovskaya. She rounded out the field to last place in 1:15.33, nearly 10 seconds off her entry time. Gnedovskaya failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed forty-first overall in the preliminaries.[3][4]

References

  1. "Olga Gnedovskaya". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  2. "Swimming – Women's 100m Backstroke Startlist (Heat 2)" (PDF). Athens 2004. Omega Timing. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
  3. "Women's 100m Backstroke Heat 2". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  4. Thomas, Stephen (15 August 2004). "Women's 100 Backstroke Prelims: France's Manaudou Fastest in 1:01.27; Natalie Coughlin, Haley Cope Move Through to Semis". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
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