Elina Partõka

Elina Partõka
Personal information
Nationality  Estonia
Born 8 February 1983
Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR,
Soviet Union
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 65 kg (143 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
Club NRK Kohtla-Järve (EST)

Elina Partõka (born February 8, 1983 in Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR) is an Estonian swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.[1] She is a three-time Olympian (2000, 2004, and 2008), and a daughter of Valentin Partõka, who competed in both 200 and 400 m individual medley at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, representing the Soviet Union.

Partoka made her official debut, as a 17-year-old swimmer from Estonia, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She failed to reach the semifinals in any of her individual events, finishing twenty-ninth in the 100 m freestyle (57.71), and thirty-first in the 200 m freestyle (2:05.90).[2][3]

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Partoka competed only in the 200 m freestyle. Swimming in heat three, she edged out New Zealand's Alison Fitch to earn a fourth spot and twenty-eighth overall by four hundredths of a second (0.04) in 2:03.54.[4][5]

Partoka swam for the third time in the 200 m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She cleared a FINA B-standard entry time of 2:01.75 in the 200 m freestyle from the Slovak Open Championships in Bratislava.[6] She won the second heat by two hundredths of a second (0.02) behind 17-year old Bulgarian swimmer Nina Rangelova, breaking an Estonian record time of 2:00.64. Partoka repeated her luck from Athens, as she shared a twenty-eighth place tie with Brazil's Monique Ferreira in the preliminaries.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Elina Partõka". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
  2. ↑ "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 200m Freestyle Heat 3" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 183. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
  3. ↑ "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 100m Freestyle Heat 2" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 174. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
  4. ↑ "Women's 200m Freestyle Heat 3". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 16 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  5. ↑ Thomas, Stephen (16 August 2004). "Women's 200 Freestyle, Prelims Day 3: Dana Vollmer Stakes Her Claim as Fastest Qualifier, Benko Also Through to Evening Round". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
  6. ↑ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Women's 200m Freestyle" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 52. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  7. ↑ "Women's 200m Freestyle Heat 2". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 27 November 2012.

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