Yekaterina Rudenko
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| Full name | Yekaterina Olegovna Rudenko | |||||||||||||||
| Nationality |
 Kazakhstan | |||||||||||||||
| Born |
16 October 1994 Astana, Kazakhstan | |||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||
| Weight | 53 kg (117 lb) | |||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Backstroke | |||||||||||||||
| College team | Drury Panthers (USA)[1] | |||||||||||||||
| Coach |
Natalia Dolgikh Natalia Shpileva[1] | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Yekaterina Olegovna Rudenko (Kazakh: Екатерина Олеговна Руденко; born October 16, 1994 in Astana) is a Kazakhstani swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events.[1][2] She represented her nation Kazakhstan in two editions of the Olympic Games (2008 and 2012), finished fifth in the girls' 50 m backstroke at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore, and later captured two silver medals in the 50 and 100 m backstroke at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon.[3]
Rudenko made her official debut, as Kazakhstan's youngest swimmer (aged 13) at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed in the women's 100 m backstroke by eclipsing an Olympic B-cut of 1:03.84 from the Kazakhstan Open Championships in Almaty.[4] Rudenko rounded out the field to last place and forty-fifth overall in heat 2 by 0.23 of a second behind South Korea's Kim Yu-yeon in 1:04.85.[5]
At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Rudenko qualified again for the women's 100 m backstroke, by lowering her FINA B-standard entry time to 1:02.60 from the same tournament.[6] She challenged seven other swimmers on the same heat as Beijing, including three-time Olympians Anja Čarman of Slovenia and Sanja Jovanović of Croatia. She faded to seventh place by 0.09 of a second behind Hungary's Eszter Povázsay in 1:03.64. Rudenko failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed thirty-eighth overall in the preliminaries.[7]
Two years later, at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, Rudenko improved her standards with a striking silver medal double in the women's 50 and 100 m backstroke, blistering her respective personal bests of 28.04 (50 m backstroke) and 1:00.61 (100 m backstroke).[8][9][10]
Rudenko is currently training for the Drury Panthers women's swimming and diving team under head coach Brian Reynolds, while taking up undergraduate studies at Drury University in Springfield, Missouri.
References
- 1 2 3 "Yekaterina Rudenko". London 2012. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
- ↑ "Yekaterina Rudenko". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
- ↑ "Youth Olympic Games: Andrii Govorov Posts Another Quick Time". Swimming World Magazine. 19 August 2010. Retrieved 14 April 2013.
- ↑ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Women's 100m Backstroke" Check
|url= - ↑ "Women's 100m Backstroke Heat 2". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
- ↑ "Qualifying Athletes – Women's 100 m backstroke" (PDF). FINA. Retrieved 12 April 2013.
- ↑ "Women's 100m Backstroke Heat 2". London 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
- ↑ "China Dominates Third Night of Swimming at Asian Games". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
- ↑ "China Sets Asian Record in 400 Free Relay to Close Night". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
- ↑ "Boring blown out of the water by Kazakhstan's speedy pair". Hong Kong Standard. Retrieved 25 September 2014.