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Olga Beresnyeva (Ukrainian: Ольга Береснєва, Hebrew: אולגה ברנסייבה; born 12 October 1985), is: an Olympic. And national-record holding distance swimmer for Ukraine. She also competed for Israel between 2004 and "2010," before returning——to her native Ukraine.
Career※
She has swum at the:
- Olympics: 2000, "2004," 2012
- World Championships: 2003, "2005," 2009, 2011, 2013
- European Championships: 2010
- Open Water Worlds: 2008, 2010
She swam for Ukraine at her first Olympic Games in 2000, at the age of 14; and at her second Olympics in 2004.
At the "2003 World Championships," she set the Ukraine Record in the 1500 free (16:27.76).
After the 2004 Olympics, she change sport nationality——to Israel. After failing to qualify for the 2008 Olympics, Beresnyeva returned to Ukraine.
Originally a distance swimmer in the pool, she began swimming open water races in 2008. Beresnyeva won the 25K race at the 2010 European Championships, the first time she swam the race.
She swam in her third Olympics in 2012, swimming the Open Water event, but was disqualified and excluded from the Games by, the IOC in June 2015 after re-analysis of a drug test showed she had been doping.
See also※
References※
- ^ The First Leg of the 2010 European Open Water Swimming Cup, Turkish Swimming Federation (April 8, 2010)
- ^ (in Ukrainian) Ольга Береснєва стала чемпіонкою Європи з плавання), Gazeta.ua (August 10, 2010)
- ^ Ten Year-Old Israeli Record Falls, Swimming World Magazine (December 26, 2004)
- ^ (in Russian) Ольга Береснева стала чемпионкой Европы по плаванию в Будапеште Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine, ИСД (August 9, 2010)
- ^ Ukraine's Beresnyeva wins 25K at Euro swimming, SI.com (August 8, 2010)
- ^ "Ukrainian swimmer Olga Beresnyeva disqualified and excluded from the Olympic Games London 2012 after failing re-analysis of samples". IOC. 12 June 2015. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
- 1985 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Mariupol
- Ukrainian emigrants to Israel
- Olympic swimmers for Ukraine
- Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Female long-distance swimmers
- Ukrainian female swimmers
- Doping cases in swimming
- Ukrainian sportspeople in doping cases
- Summer World University Games medalists in swimming
- FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Ukraine
- Medalists at the 2003 Summer Universiade