Anna Sztankovics
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 Hungary | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
10 January 1996 Budapest, Hungary | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 60 kg (132 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Breaststroke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Jövő SC[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Balazs Virth[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Anna Sztankovics (born January 10, 1996 in Budapest) is a Hungarian swimmer, who specializes in the breaststroke events.[1][2] She won two gold medals in the 100 m breaststroke at the 2011 European Junior Swimming Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, and at the 2012 European Junior Swimming Championships in Antwerp, Belgium.[3][4] Sztankovics is a member of Jövő Swimming Club in Budapest, and is coached and trained by Balazs Virth.[1]
Sztankovics qualified for three swimming events at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, by eclipsing FINA B-standard entry times of 1:09.31 (100 m breaststroke) and 2:30.26 (200 m breaststroke) from the European Championships.[3][5][6] In the 100 m breaststroke, Sztankovics challenged seven other swimmers on the second heat, including two-time Olympian Danielle Beaubrun of St. Lucia. She cruised to second place and thirty-first overall by two hundredths of a second (0.02) behind Slovenia's Tjasa Vozel in 1:09.65.[7] In the 200 m breaststroke, Sztankovics picked up another second spot in heat one behind three-time Olympian Alia Atkinson of Jamaica by less than 0.10 of a second, in her lifetime best of 2:29.67. Sztankovics failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed twenty-ninth overall in the preliminaries.[8][9]
Sztankovics also teamed up with Zsuzsanna Jakabos, Evelyn Verrasztó, and Eszter Dara in the 4×100 m medley relay. Swimming the breaststroke leg, Sztankovics recorded a split of 1:17.43. [10]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Anna Sztankovics". London 2012. Retrieved 12 April 2013.
- ↑ "Anna Sztankovics". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 12 April 2013.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "European Long Course Junior Championships: Mihael Vukic Cracks Top 20". Swimming World Magazine. 7 July 2011. Retrieved 12 April 2013.
- ↑ "European Junior Championships: Germany Tops Medal Count, Russia Second". Swimming World Magazine. 10 July 2012. Retrieved 12 April 2013.
- ↑ "Qualifying Athletes – Women's 100 m breaststroke" (PDF). FINA. Retrieved 12 April 2013.
- ↑ "Qualifying Athletes – Women's 200 m breaststroke" (PDF). FINA. Retrieved 12 April 2013.
- ↑ "Women's 100m Breaststroke Heat 2". London 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
- ↑ "Women's 200m Breaststroke Heat 1". London 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
- ↑ "Sztankovics Anna nem jutott tovább 200 m mellen" [Anna Sztankovics failed to qualify for 200m breaststroke] (in Hungarian). Hatharom.hu. 1 August 2012. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
- ↑ "Women's 4×100m Medley Heat 1". London 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2013.