Sigrún Brá Sverrisdóttir

Sigrún Brá Sverrisdóttir
Personal information
Nationality  Iceland
Born (1990-03-23) 23 March 1990
Reykjavík, Iceland
Height 1.67 m (5 ft 5 1⁄2 in)
Weight 60 kg (132 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
College team Arkansas Razorbacks (USA)

Sigrún Brá Sverrisdóttir (born March 23, 1990 in Reykjavík) is an Icelandic swimmer, who specialized in freestyle events.[1] She is a multiple-time Icelandic champion and record holder in the women's freestyle (100, 200, and 400 m), and also, a member of the swimming team for the Arkansas Razorbacks.

Sverrisdottir qualified for the women's 200 m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 2:03.35 from the Mare Nostrum Monte Carlo Swim Meet in Monaco.[2] She challenged five other swimmers on the first heat, including 16-year-old Milica Ostojić of Serbia. She rounded out the field to last place by more than a second behind Croatia's Anja Trišić in 2:04.82. Sverrisdottir failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed forty-fifth overall in the preliminary heats.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Sigrún Brá Sverrisdóttir". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 18 December 2012.
  2. ↑ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Women's 200m Freestyle" Check |url= value (help) (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 54. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  3. ↑ "Women's 200m Freestyle Heat 1". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 18 December 2012.

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