Nataliya Khudyakova

Nataliya Khudyakova
Personal information
Full name Nataliya Khudyakova
National team  Ukraine
Born (1985-02-08) 8 February 1985
Brovary, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 64 kg (141 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
Club Dynamo Kiev

Nataliya Khudyakova (Ukrainian: Наталія Худякова; born February 8, 1985 in Brovary) is a Ukrainian swimmer, who specialized in freestyle events.[1]

Khudyakova competed for Ukraine in three swimming events at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Leading up to the Games, she cleared FINA B-standard entry time of 2:02.88 (200 m freestyle) at the EDF Swimming Open in Paris and 4:19.67 (400 m freestyle) at the Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand.[2][3] Khudyakova also teamed up with Darya Stepanyuk, Kateryna Dikidzhi, and Hanna Dzerkal in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay. Swimming the anchor leg in heat two, Khudyakova recorded a split of 56.54 seconds, and the Ukrainian team went on to finish the prelims in fourteenth overall with a final time of 3:44.72.[4]

In the 400 m freestyle, Khudyakova challenged six other swimmers on the second heat, including two-time Olympian Golda Marcus of El Salvador. She raced to second and thirty-third overall by a quarter of a second (0.25) behind Venezuela's Yanel Pinto in 4:18.34.[5] In her third event, 200 m freestyle, Khudyakova posted her personal best of 2:02.27 to top the first heat by 0.61 of a second ahead of Thailand's Natthanan Junkrajang. Khudyakova failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed thirty-fifth overall in the preliminaries.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Nataliya Khudyakova". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
  2. ↑ "2008 Paris Open: Women's 200m Freestyle Results". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 15 March 2013.
  3. ↑ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Women's 400m Freestyle" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 58. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  4. ↑ "Women's 4×100m Freestyle Heat 2". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
  5. ↑ "Women's 400m Freestyle Heat 2". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
  6. ↑ "Women's 200m Freestyle Heat 1". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 5 December 2012.

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