Irina Shlemova
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality |
 Uzbekistan |
| Born | 3 March 1984 |
| Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 6 1⁄2 in) |
| Weight | 53 kg (117 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Freestyle |
| Club | Oltin Suv |
| Coach | Daniya Galandinova |
Irina Shlemova (Uzbek: Ирина Шлемова; born March 3, 1984) is an Uzbekistani swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.[1] She is a member of Oltin Suv Swimming Club, and is coached and trained by Daniya Galandinova.
Shlemova made her official debut at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where she competed in the women's 100 m freestyle. Swimming in heat two, she picked up a sixth seed and forty-fifth overall by three hundredths of a second (0.030 behind Chinese Taipei's Sung Yi-chieh in 59.21.[2]
Four years after competing in her first Olympics, Shlemova qualified for her second Uzbekistan team, as a 24-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She cleared a FINA B-standard entry time of 57.13 (100 m freestyle) from the Russian Championships in Saint Petersburg.[3] In the 100 m freestyle, Shlemova challenged five other swimmers on the same heat as Athens, including 15-year-old Quah Ting Wen of Singapore, and fellow two-time Olympian Nieh Pin-chieh of Chinese Taipei. She rounded out the field to last place by more than a second behind Nieh in 58.77 seconds. Shlemova failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed forty-sixth overall in the preliminary heats.[4]
References
- ↑ "Irina Shlemova". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
- ↑ "Women's 100m Freestyle Heat 2". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 18 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
- ↑ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Women's 100m Freestyle" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 50. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
- ↑ "Women's 100m Freestyle Heat 2". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 6 December 2012.