Nataliya Filina

Nataliya Filina

Nataliya Filina (left) in 2009
Personal information
National team	Azerbaijan
Born	12 August 1987 Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	62 kg (137 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Breaststroke

Nataliya Filina (born 12 August 1987) is an Olympic swimmer from Azerbaijan.^[1] She swam for Azerbaijan at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and also in three editions of the World Championships (2003, 2005, and 2009).

Filina qualified for the women's 100 m breaststroke at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by receiving a Universality place from FINA, in an entry time of 1:19.49.^[2] She challenged seven other swimmers in heat one, including Bolivia's Katerine Moreno, who competed at her third Olympics since 1988. She raced to fourth place by nearly a two-second margin behind winner Moreno in 1:20.21. Filina failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed forty-fourth overall in the preliminaries.^[3][4]

References

1. "Nataliya Filina". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 5 May 2013.
2. "Swimming – Women's 100m Breaststroke Startlist (Heat 1)" (PDF). Athens 2004. Omega Timing. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
3. "Women's 100m Breaststroke Heat 1". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
4. Thomas, Stephen (15 August 2004). "Women’s 100 Breaststroke Prelims: Aussies Hanson and Jones Qualify One-Two". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 19 April 2013.