Irina Shlemova

Irina Shlemova

Personal information
Full name	Irina Shlemova
National team	Uzbekistan
Born	(1984-03-03) 3 March 1984 (age 40) Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	53 kg (117 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle
Club	Oltin Suv
Coach	Daniya Galandinova

Irina Shlemova (Russian: Ирина Шлемова; born 3 March 1984) is an Uzbekistani former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.^[1] She is a two-time Olympian (2004 and 2008) and a member of Oltin Suv Swimming Club, under the tutelage of her personal coach Daniya Galandinova.

Shlemova made her first Uzbek team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where she competed in the women's 100 m freestyle. Swimming in heat two, she picked up a sixth seed and forty-fifth overall by three hundredths of a second (0.030 behind Chinese Taipei's Sung Yi-chieh in 59.21.^[2][3]

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Shlemova qualified for the second time in the women's 100 m freestyle. She cleared a FINA B-standard entry time of 57.13 (100 m freestyle) from the Russian Championships in Saint Petersburg.^[4] Shlemova challenged five other swimmers on the same heat as Athens, including 15-year-old Quah Ting Wen of Singapore, and fellow two-time Olympian Nieh Pin-chieh of Chinese Taipei. She rounded out the field to last place by more than a second behind Nieh in 58.77 seconds. Shlemova failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed forty-sixth overall in the prelims.^[5]

References

1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Irina Shlemova". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
2. "Women's 100m Freestyle Heat 2". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 18 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
3. Thomas, Stephen (18 August 2004). "Women's 100 Freestyle Prelims, Day 5: Inky Leads the Pack with a Swift 54.43". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 28 December 2013. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
4. "Olympic Cut Sheet – Women's 100m Freestyle" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 50. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
5. "Women's 100m Freestyle Heat 2". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 6 December 2012.

External links

• Irina Shlemova at World Aquatics
• Irina Shlemova at Olympedia
• NBC Olympics Profile