Yana Klochkova

Yana Klochkova
Personal information
Full name Yana Oleksandrivna Klochkova
Яна Олександрівна Клочкова
Nationality  Ukraine
Born 7 August 1982 (1982-08-07) (age 29)
Simferopol, Soviet Union
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 70 kilograms (154 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Stroke(s) Freestyle, individual medley
Club Dynamo

Yana Oleksandrivna Klochkova (Ukrainian: Яна Олександрівна Клочкова; born 7 August 1982 in Simferopol) is a Ukrainian swimmer, who has won five Olympic medals in her career, with four of them being gold.

Her gold medals came in the 200 meter individual medley and the 400 meter individual medley at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics; her silver medal came in the 800 meter freestyle at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She has also won ten titles at swimming's world championships, nineteen European championship titles. She currently holds the short-course world record in the 400 meter individual medley. Her 400 m individual medley world record was broken by American Katie Hoff at the 2007 World Championships in Melbourne. In 2003 she won four golds at the Summer Universiade in South Korea. She was also awarded the Hero of Ukraine medal. In 2004, she was named by Swimming World magazine as the World Female Swimmer of the Year.

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Titles

Yana Klochkova's titles include:

Olympic Champion

World Champion, Long Course

World Champion, Short Course

European Champion, Long Course

European Champion, Short Course

Universiade Champion, Long Course

See also

References

  1. ^ "ESPN Sydney Swimming". http://static.espn.go.com/oly/summer00/swimming/index.html. Retrieved 2009-03-14. 
  2. ^ "2004 Olympic Games swimming results". CNN. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/2004/schedules/117BySport.html. Retrieved 2007-07-22. 
  3. ^ "2002 World Championships - Short Course Swim Rankings results". http://www.swimrankings.net/index.php?page=meetDetail&meetId=8866485. Retrieved 2007-07-24. 
  4. ^ "5th FINA World Swimming Championships". Archived from the original on 18 December 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20071218160948/http://www.fina.org/events/WC/Fukuoka_2001/site/wldswimchamps00_results.html. Retrieved 2007-07-24. 

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Records
Preceded by
Chen Yan		 World Record Holder
Women's 400 Individual Medley
September 16, 2000 – April 1, 2007		 Succeeded by
Katie Hoff
Preceded by
Dai Guohong		 World Record Holder
Women's 400 Individual Medley (25m)
January 20, 2002 – April 9, 2008		 Succeeded by
Kirsty Coventry
Awards
Preceded by
Hannah Stockbauer		 Swimming World's World Swimmer of the Year
2004		 Succeeded by
Leisel Jones
Preceded by
Hannah Stockbauer		 Swimming World's European Swimmer of the Year
2004		 Succeeded by
Otylia Jędrzejczak
  • 1981: Margaret Brooksbank (USA)
  • 1981: Kim Linehan (USA)
  • 1983: Irina Laricheva (URS)
  • 1985: Stacy Shupe (USA)
  • 1987: Noemi Lung (ROM)
  • 1991: Francesca Ferrarini (ITA)
  • 1993: Christine Stephenson (USA)
  • 1995: Tamako Kihara (JPN)
  • 1997: Suzanne Black (USA)
  • 1999: Cara Lane (USA)
  • 2001: Yana Klochkova (UKR)
  • 2003: Rebecca Cooke (GBR)
  • 2005: Rebecca Cooke (GBR)
  • 2007: Flavia Rigamonti (SUI)
  • 2009: Whitney Sprague (USA)
  • 2011: Lauren Boyle (NZL)
  • 1979: Janet Buchan (USA)
  • 1981: Mayumi Yokoyama (USA)
  • 1983: Irina Gerasimova (URS)
  • 1985: Channon Hermstad (USA)
  • 1987: Noemi Lung (ROM)
  • 1991: Lin Li (CHN)
  • 1993: Nancy Sweetnam (CAN)
  • 1995 – 1997: Fumie Kurotori (JPN)
  • 1999: Hana Černá (CZE)
  • 2001: Federica Biscia (ITA) and Liang Shuang (CHN)
  • 2003: Yana Klochkova (UKR)
  • 2005: Qi Hui (CHN)
  • 2007: Yana Klochkova (UKR)
  • 2009: Ava Ohlgren (USA)
  • 2011: Maya Dirado (USA)