Elina Partõka
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Elina Partõka |
| National team |  Estonia |
| Born | 2 August 1983 Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Freestyle |
| Club | NRK Kohtla-Järve |
Elina Partõka (born 2 August 1983) is an Estonian former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.[1] She is a three-time Olympian (2000, 2004, and 2008), and a daughter of Valentin Partyka, who competed in both 200 and 400 m individual medley at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, representing the Soviet Union.
Partoka made her first Estonian team, as a 17-year-old swimming teen at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. There, she failed to reach the semifinals in any of her individual events, finishing twenty-ninth in the 100 m freestyle (57.71), and thirty-first in the 200 m freestyle (2:05.90).[2][3]
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Partõka competed only in the 200 m freestyle. Swimming in heat three, she edged out New Zealand's Alison Fitch to earn a fourth spot and twenty-eighth overall by four hundredths of a second (0.04) in 2:03.54.[4][5]
Partõka swam for the third time in the 200 m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She cleared a FINA B-standard entry time of 2:01.75 in the 200 m freestyle from the Slovak Open Championships in Bratislava.[6] She won the second heat by two hundredths of a second (0.02) behind 17-year old Bulgarian swimmer Nina Rangelova, breaking an Estonian record time of 2:00.64. Partõka repeated her luck from Athens, as she shared a twenty-eighth place tie with Brazil's Monique Ferreira in the preliminaries.[7] She posed nude for Estonian edition of Playboy in April 2009.[8]
See also
References
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Elina Partõka". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
- ^ "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 200m Freestyle Heat 3" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 183. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 August 2011. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
- ^ "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 100m Freestyle Heat 2" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 174. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 August 2011. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
- ^ "Women's 200m Freestyle Heat 3". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 16 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
- ^ Thomas, Stephen (16 August 2004). "Women's 200 Freestyle, Prelims Day 3: Dana Vollmer Stakes Her Claim as Fastest Qualifier, Benko Also Through to Evening Round". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 30 June 2013. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
- ^ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Women's 200m Freestyle" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 52. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
- ^ "Women's 200m Freestyle Heat 2". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
- ^ "Aprillikuu Playboy kaanestaar on ujuja Elina Partõka 2". Retrieved 20 January 2016.
External links
- Profile – ESBL (in Estonian)
- NBC Olympics Profile