Elín Sigurðardóttir
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Elín Sigurðardóttir |
| National team |  Iceland |
| Born | 15 January 1973 Hafnarfjörður, Iceland |
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) |
| Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Freestyle |
Elín Sigurðardóttir (born 15 January 1973) is an Icelandic former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.Sarah Blake Bateman.
Sigurdardottir made her first Icelandic team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Swimming in heat three of the women's 50 m freestyle, she raced to a sixth seed and thirty-seventh overall in 26.90, a third of a second behind leader Dominique Diezi of Switzerland.[2]
At the
Barcelona, Spain.[4] She challenged seven other swimmers in heat five, including teenagers Chiang Tzu-ying of Chinese Taipei, Marijana Šurković of Croatia, and Jūratė Ladavičiūtė of Lithuania. Diving in with a 0.79-second deficit, Sigurdardottir faded down the stretch on the final 15-metre mark to last place in 27.58, almost a full second behind leader Chiang. Sigurdardottir failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed fifty-first overall out of 74 swimmers in the prelims.[5][6]
References
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Elín Sigurðardóttir". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
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- ^ "Íslendingar senda 11 keppendur til Sydneyļūst" [Icelanders send 11 competitors to Sydney] (in Icelandic). Morgunblaðið. 4 April 2000. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
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