Nina Sovinek
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality |
 Slovenia |
| Born |
26 May 1985 Velenje, SR Slovenia, Yugoslavia |
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) |
| Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Freestyle |
| Club | PK Olimpija |
| Coach | Aleš Poljak |
Nina Sovinek (born May 26, 1985 in Velenje) is a Slovenian swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.[1] She is a member of the Slovenian Olympic Swimming Club (Slovene: Plavalni klub Olimpija Slovenija) and is coached and trained by Aleš Poljak.[2]
Sovinek qualified for two swimming events at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by clearing FINA B-standard entry times of 26.27 (50 m freestyle) from Slovenia Open in Ljubljana and 56.11 (100 m freestyle) from the European Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands.[3][4] In the 100 m freestyle, Sovinek challenged seven other swimmers on the third heat, including returning Olympians Anna Stylianou of Cyprus, and Chang Hee-Jin of South Korea. She rounded out the field to last place and forty-fourth overall by less than 0.14 of a second behind Greece's Eleni Kosti in a time of 57.30 seconds.[5] In her second event, 50 m freestyle, Sovinek touched out Hong Kong's Elaine Chan to take the fourth spot on the seventh heat by 0.05 of a second, with a time of 26.54 seconds. Sovinek failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed forty-fourth out of 92 swimmers in the preliminaries.[6]
References
- ↑ "Nina Sovinek". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 28 November 2012.
- ↑ "Nina Sovinek v polfinalu" [Nina Sovinek in the semifinals] (in Slovenian). 24ur. 12 December 2008. Retrieved 8 April 2013.
- ↑ "2008 LEN European Aquatics Championships (Eindhoven, Netherlands) – Women's 100m Freestyle Semifinals" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 14 March 2013.
- ↑ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Women's 50m Freestyle" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 45. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
- ↑ "Women's 100m Freestyle Heat 3". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 23 November 2012.
- ↑ "Women's 50m Freestyle Heat 7". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 28 November 2012.