Erla Dögg Haraldsdóttir

Erla Dögg Haraldsdóttir
Personal information
Nationality  Iceland
Born 19 April 1988
Njarðvík, Iceland
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 68 kg (150 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Breaststroke, medley
College team Old Dominion Monarchs (USA)

Erla Dögg Haraldsdóttir (born April 19, 1988) is an Icelandic swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke and individual medley events.[1] She is a 24-time Icelandic champion and holds 11 records in the same stroke.

Haraldsdottir qualified for two swimming events at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by clearing FINA B-standard entry times of 1:10.66 (100 m breaststroke) from the Mare Nostrum Arena International Meet in Canet-en-Roussillon, France, and 2:18.74 (200 m individual medley) from the Icelandic Championships in Reykjavík.[2][3] In the 100 m breaststroke, she challenged seven other swimmers on the third heat, including three-time Olympian Smiljana Marinović of Croatia. She finished behind Brazil's Tatiane Sakemi in sixth place and fortieth overall by three hundredths of a second (0.03) in 1:11.78.[4] The following day, Haraldsdottir took the fourth spot in heat one of the 200 m individual medley in 2:20.53, less than two seconds behind three-time Olympian Sherry Tsai of Hong Kong. Haraldsdottir failed to qualify for the semifinals, as she placed thirty-fifth overall in the preliminary heats.[5]

Haraldsdottir is a member of the swimming team, along with her compatriot Árni Már Árnason, for the Old Dominion Monarchs, and a graduate of civil engineering at the Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.[6] Haraldsdottir also became the first female swimmer to represent her university at the 2011 NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships, where she set her own personal record of 1:01.15 in the women's breaststroke.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Erla Dögg Haraldsdóttir". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 18 December 2012.
  2. ↑ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Women's 100m Breaststroke" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 69. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  3. ↑ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Women's 200m Individual Medley" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 81. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  4. ↑ "Women's 100m Breaststroke Heat 3". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 18 December 2012.
  5. ↑ "Women's 200m Individual Medley Heat 1". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 18 December 2012.
  6. ↑ "Arni Arnason, Erla Haraldsdottir Named Co-Swimmers of the Week". Old Dominion Monarchs. 1 February 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
  7. ↑ "Swimmer Erla Haraldsdottir to Compete at NCAA Championships". Old Dominion Monarchs. 2 March 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2013.

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