Marina Mulyayeva
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Marina Vladimirovna Mulyayeva |
| Nickname(s) | Marishka |
| National team |
 Kazakhstan |
| Born |
30 April 1981 Almaty, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union |
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) |
| Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Freestyle, medley |
| College team | University of Maryland (U.S.) |
Marina Vladimirovna Mulyayeva (Kazakh: Марина Владимировна Муляева; born April 30, 1981) is a Kazakh former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle and individual medley events.[1] She is a six-time national record holder, a multiple-time ACC titleholder, and one-time NCAA Honorable Mention All-American swimmer.[2] Mulyayeva is also a varsity swimmer for the Maryland Terrapins and an international business major at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland.
Mulyayeva made her first Kazakh team, as a 19-year-old, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she competed in the women's 200 m individual medley. She edged out Kyrgyzstan's Alexandra Zertsalova on the freestyle leg to lead the first heat in 2:24.09.[3]
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Mulyayeva placed twenty-fifth in the 200 m individual medley. Swimming in the same heat from Sydney, she edged out Denmark's Louise Mai Jansen to save a fifth spot by nearly three seconds in 2:24.25.[4][5]
Mulyayeva decided to drop her specialty event, the 200 m individual medley, and experiment with the 50 m freestyle, when she competed for her third time at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She achieved a FINA B-standard of 26.30 from the Kazakhstan Open Championships in Almaty.[6] She challenged seven other swimmers in heat seven, including fellow three-time Olympic veteran Mariya Bugakova of Uzbekistan. She raced to sixth place by three hundredths of a second (0.03) behind Hong Kong's Elaine Chan in 26.57. Mulyayeva failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed forty-sixth overall out of 92 swimmers in the preliminaries.[7]
References
- ↑ "Marina Mulyayeva". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
- ↑ Shaffer, Jonas (11 June 2009). "Swimming Skills Not Lost in Translation". Yahoo! Voices. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
- ↑ "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 200m Individual Medley Heat 1" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 323. Retrieved 5 March 2013.
- ↑ "Women's 200m Individual Medley Heat 1". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 16 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
- ↑ Thomas, Stephen (16 August 2004). "Women's 200 Individual Medley Prelims Day 3: Klochkova Aims for Repeat Olympic Gold; Americans Qualify 3rd and 4th". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
- ↑ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Women's 50m Freestyle" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 46. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
- ↑ "Women's 50m Freestyle Heat 7". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 30 December 2012.