Monika Babok

Monika Babok
Personal information
Nationality  Croatia
Born 30 November 1991
Zagreb, SR Croatia,
SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)
Weight 65 kg (143 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle, butterfly
Club Plivački Klub Sisak JANAF
College team SMU Mustangs (USA)

Monika Babok (born November 30, 1991 in Zagreb) is a Croatian swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events.[1] She collected a silver medal in the 50 m butterfly at the 2007 European Junior Swimming Championships in Antwerp, Belgium with a time of 27.48 seconds.[2] Babok is a member of the swimming team for SMU Mustangs, and a graduate of sports management at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

Babok qualified for the women's 50 m freestyle, as Croatia's youngest swimmer (aged 16), at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 26.25 from the European Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands.[3][4] Babok challenged seven other swimmers on the seventh heat, including three-time Olympians Mariya Bugakova of Uzbekistan and Marina Mulyayeva of Kazakhstan. She earned a seventh spot by 0.27 of a second behind Mulyayeva, but 0.01 ahead of her entry time in 26.84 seconds. Babok failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed forty-ninth out of 92 swimmers in the preliminary heats.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Monika Babok". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 20 December 2012.
  2. ↑ Rusticus, Oene (23 July 2007). "Lizzie Simmonds Tears Up Final Day of European Junior Championships". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
  3. ↑ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Women's 50m Freestyle" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 45. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  4. ↑ "2008 LEN European Aquatics Championships (Eindhoven, Netherlands) – Women's 50m Freestyle Semifinals" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
  5. ↑ "Women's 50m Freestyle Heat 7". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 20 December 2012.

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