Kolbrún Ýr Kristjánsdóttir

This is an Icelandic name. The last name is a patronymic, not a family name; this person is properly referred to by the given name Kolbrún.
Kolbrún Ýr Kristjánsdóttir
Personal information
Full name Kolbrún Ýr Kristjánsdóttir
National team  Iceland
Born (1982-11-11) 11 November 1982
Akranes, Iceland
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 64 kg (141 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Butterfly, backstroke
Club Sundfélag Akranes

Kolbrún Ýr Kristjánsdóttir (born November 11, 1982 in Akranes) is a retired Icelandic swimmer, who specialized in backstroke and butterfly events.[1] She is a two-time Olympian (2000 and 2004), and former Icelandic record holder in the same strokes (both 100 and 200 m).

Kolbrún made her first Icelandic team, as a 17-year-old teen, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. There, she failed to reach the semifinals in any of her individual events, finishing forty-third in the 100 m backstroke (1:07.28), and thirty-second in the 200 m backstroke (2:24.33).[2][3]

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Kolbrún shortened her program on her second Olympic appearance, swimming only in the 100 m butterfly. She posted a FINA B-standard entry time of 1:02.07 from the Games of the Small States of Europe in Valletta, Malta.[4] She challenged seven other swimmers in heat two, including five-time Olympian Mette Jacobsen of Denmark. She edged out Hong Kong's Sze Hang Yu to pick up a sixth seed by 0.09 of a second in 1:02.33. Kolbrún failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed thirty-first overall on the first day of preliminaries.[5][6][7]

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