Ragnheiður Ragnarsdóttir

Ragnheiður Ragnarsdóttir
Personal information
Nationality  Iceland
Born 24 October 1984
Reykjavík, Iceland
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight 74 kg (163 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
Club Sundfélagið Húnar

Ragnheiður Ragnarsdóttir (born October 14, 1984 in Reykjavík) is an Icelandic swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.[1] She is a multiple-time Icelandic record holder in both long and short course freestyle (both 50 and 100).

Ragnarsdóttir made her official debut, as Iceland's youngest swimmer (aged 19), at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She qualified for two swimming events by attaining B-standard entry times of 26.34 (50 m freestyle) and 56.74 (100 m freestyle).[2][3] In the 100 m freestyle, Ragnarsdóttir finished dead-last on the third heat and fortieth overall with a time of 58.47 seconds.[4] In the 50 m freestyle, Ragnarsdóttir almost snared out of triumph in heat five by a hundredth of a second (0.01) behind Luxembourg's Lara Heinz, outside her qualified entry time of 26.36 seconds. Ragnarsdóttir failed to qualify for the semifinals, as she placed thirty-first overall in the preliminary heats.[5]

At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Ragnarsdóttir qualified for two swimming events, by clearing FINA B-cuts of 25.95 (50 m freestyle) from the Dutch Open Swim Cup in Eindhoven and 56.06 (100 m freestyle) from FINA World Championships in Melbourne.[6][7][8] In the 100 m freestyle, Ragnarsdóttir was reassigned on the third heat against seven other swimmers, including Hong Kong's Hannah Wilson and Bahamas' Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace. She touched out Cyprus' Anna Stylianou to take the fifth spot and thirty-fifth overall by three hundredths of a second (0.03), in a time of 56.35 seconds.[9] In the 50 m freestyle, Ragnarsdóttir finished behind Jamaica's Natasha Moodie in fourth place on the eighth heat by 0.13 of a second, clocking at 25.82. Ragnarsdóttir failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed thirty-sixth out of 92 swimmers in the evening preliminaries.[10]

References

  1. ↑ "Ragnheiður Ragnarsdóttir". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 18 December 2012.
  2. ↑ "Swimming – Women's 50m Freestyle Startlist (Heat 6)" (PDF). Athens 2004. Omega Timing. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
  3. ↑ "Swimming – Women's 100m Freestyle Startlist (Heat 3)" (PDF). Athens 2004. Omega Timing. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
  4. ↑ "Women's 100m Freestyle Heat 3". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 18 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  5. ↑ "Women's 50m Freestyle Heat 5". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 19 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  6. ↑ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Women's 50m Freestyle" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 45. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  7. ↑ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Women's 100m Freestyle" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 48. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  8. ↑ "Aftur met hjá Ragnheiði i Eindhoven" [Ragnheiður meets again in Eindhoven] (in Icelandic). KR Vefurinn. 8 December 2007. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  9. ↑ "Women's 100m Freestyle Heat 3". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 18 December 2012.
  10. ↑ "Women's 50m Freestyle Heat 8". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 18 December 2012.

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