Svetlana Karpeeva
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| Full name | Svetlana Anatolyevna Karpeyeva | ||||||||||||||||||
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 Russia
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16 October 1985 Omsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
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| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 68 kg (150 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle, medley | ||||||||||||||||||
| Club | King Aquatic Club (U.S.) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Sean Hutchison (U.S.) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Svetlana Anatolyevna Karpeyeva (also Svetlana Karpeeva, Russian: Светлана Анатольевна Карпеева; born October 16, 1985) is a Russian swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and individual medley events. She has been selected to the Russian swimming team in a medley double at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and also claimed three bronze medals in a major international competition, spanning two editions of the Summer Universiade (2007 and 2009).
Karpeeva competed in a medley double, and as a member of the Russian swimming team in the freestyle relay at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Leading up to the Games, she fired off a fantastic 2:14.13 to wrest the 200 m individual medley title and slide under the FINA A-cut (2:15.27) at the Santa Clara Invitational meet in California.
On the first night of the Games, Karpeeva swam her first two events with only 30 minutes in between. First, she fought off a sprint freestyle challenge from Mexico's Susana Escobar in heat two of the 400 m individual medley, before fading to sixth place and thirty-first overall in 4:50.22. Half an hour later, Karpeeva and her Russian teammates Daria Belyakina, Yelena Sokolova, and Anastasia Aksenova claimed a distant sixth spot and twelfth overall in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay with a time of 3:42.52. Diving into the pool at the final exchange, she produced an anchor split of 55.52 seconds.
Three days later, Karpeeva missed the top eight final of the 200 m individual medley with a thirteenth-place time in 2:13.26. One night earlier, she scored a solid 2:12.94 on the rear of the dominant breaststroke leg to grab the last semifinal seed, following her fourth-place finish in heat four.
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