Yekaterina Rudenko
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| Full name | Yekaterina Olegovna Rudenko | |||||||||||||||
| National team |
 Kazakhstan | |||||||||||||||
| Born |
16 October 1994 Aqmola, 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 University (U.S.)[1] | |||||||||||||||
| Coach |
Natalia Dolgikh Natalia Shpileva[1] | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Yekaterina Olegovna Rudenko (Kazakh: Екатерина Олеговна Руденко; born October 16, 1994) is a Kazakh 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 became the youngest ever swimmer (aged 13) to compete for the Kazakh team at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, swimming in the 100 m backstroke. She cruised to the top of the field with a 1:03.84 to invincibly slide under the FINA B-cut (1:03.86) by two hundredths of a second (0.02) at the Kazakhstan Open Championships three months earlier in Almaty.[4] Inexperienced to the Olympic scene, Rudenko rounded out the field to last place and forty-fifth overall in heat two with a 1:04.85.[5]
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, Rudenko competed for the second time in the women's 100 m backstroke, by downing her FINA B-cut to 1:02.60 at the Kazakhstan Open.[6] Rudenko touched behind the leader Tao Li of Singapore on the initial length in heat two, before fading down the stretch to save the seventh spot in 1:03.64, missing the semifinals with a much improved, thirty-eighth overall placement in the prelims.[7]
Two years later, at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, Rudenko upgraded her standards with a striking silver medal double in the women's 50 and 100 m backstroke, blistering a lifetime best of 28.04 (50 m backstroke) and 1:00.61 (100 m backstroke), respectively.[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" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 64. Retrieved 14 April 2013.
- ↑ "Women's 100m Backstroke Heat 2". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. 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.