Olga Igoryevna Detenyuk (Russian: Ольга Игоревна Детенюк; born June 23, 1993) is a Russian swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.[1] She represented her nation Russia, as a 15-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has claimed a full set of career medals in a major international competition, spanning the World and European Junior Championships and the inaugural 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore.[2][3]
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| Full name | Olga Igoryevna Detenyuk | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team |  Russia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 23 June 1993 Vladivostok, Russia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 57 kg (126 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Breaststroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Detenyuk claimed her first title in the 200 m breaststroke at the 2008 FINA Youth World Swimming Championships in Monterrey, Mexico, demolishing a meet record of 2:25.19.[4] Leading to her Olympic debut as a fifteen-year-old, she scored a second-place time of 2:26.15 just behind Yuliya Yefimova to assure a direct selection to the Olympic swimming team and slide strenuously under the FINA A-cut (2:28.20) at the Russian Championships on that same year in Moscow.[5]
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Detenyuk competed as a lone Russian swimmer in the women's 200 m breaststroke. Swimming alongside Yefimova in heat four, Detenyuk tried to hold on with the top four leaders throughout the race, but faded down the stretch to take the seventh spot in 2:27.87. Detenyuk missed the semifinals by 0.6-second margin, sharing a twentieth-place tie with Great Britain's Kirsty Balfour in the prelims.[6]
When Singapore hosted the inaugural 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in 2010, Detenyuk and her teammates Alexandra Papusha, Kristina Kochetkova, and Ekaterina Andreeva solidified their silver-medal finish in the girls' 4×100 m medley relay with a time of 4:11.07, trailing the victorious Aussie foursome by nearly two seconds.[7]
References
edit- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Olga Detenyuk". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
- ^ "World Youth Championships: Dagny Knutson Makes It Five!". Swimming World Magazine. 13 July 2008. Archived from the original on 16 February 2013. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
- ^ "Определился состав сборной России по плаванию на Олимпиаде-2008" [2008 Russian Olympic swimming team has officially announced] (in Russian). AllSport.ru. 13 June 2008. Archived from the original on 12 April 2016. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
- ^ "World Youth Championships: Dagny Knutson Makes It Five!". Swimming World Magazine. 13 July 2008. Archived from the original on 16 February 2013. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
- ^ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Women's 200m Breaststroke" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 71. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
- ^ "Swimming: Women's 200m Breaststroke Heat 4". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
- ^ "Youth Olympics Games: Boglarka Kapas, Chad Le Clos Post World-Ranked Times in Victory". Swimming World Magazine. 16 August 2010. Archived from the original on 16 February 2013. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
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