Olga Beresnyeva

Olga Beresnyeva
Personal information
Born (1985-10-12) October 12, 1985 (age 39)
Zhdanov, Soviet Union
Sport
SportSwimming
Medal record
Representing  Ukraine
Summer Universiade
Bronze medal – third place 2003 Daegu 800 m freestyle
European Junior Championships
Silver medal – second place 2000 Dunkerque 800 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2001 Malta 800 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2001 Malta 400 m freestyle
European Youth Olympic Festival
Bronze medal – third place 1999 Esbjerg 400 m freestyle
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2010 Budapest 25 km open water

Olga Beresnyeva (Ukrainian: Ольга Береснєва, Hebrew: אולגה ברנסייבה; born 12 October 1985[1]),[2] is an Olympic and national-record holding distance swimmer for Ukraine. She also competed for Israel between 2004 and 2010, before returning to her native Ukraine.

Career

She has swum at the:

  • Olympics: 2000, 2004, 2012
  • World Championships: 2003, 2005, 2009, 2011, 2013
  • European Championships: 2010
  • Open Water Worlds: 2008, 2010

She swam for Ukraine at her first Olympic Games in 2000, at the age of 14;[2] and at her second Olympics in 2004.

At the 2003 World Championships, she set the Ukraine Record in the 1500 free (16:27.76).

After the 2004 Olympics, she change sport nationality to Israel.[3] After failing to qualify for the 2008 Olympics, Beresnyeva returned to Ukraine.[2][4]

Originally a distance swimmer in the pool, she began swimming open water races in 2008.[2] Beresnyeva won the 25K race at the 2010 European Championships, the first time she swam the race.[5]

She swam in her third Olympics in 2012, swimming the Open Water event, but was disqualified and excluded from the Games by the IOC in June 2015 after re-analysis of a drug test showed she had been doping.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ The First Leg of the 2010 European Open Water Swimming Cup, Turkish Swimming Federation (April 8, 2010)
  2. ^ a b c d (in Ukrainian) Ольга Береснєва стала чемпіонкою Європи з плавання), Gazeta.ua (August 10, 2010)
  3. ^ Ten Year-Old Israeli Record Falls, Swimming World Magazine (December 26, 2004)
  4. ^ (in Russian) Ольга Береснева стала чемпионкой Европы по плаванию в Будапеште Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine, ИСД (August 9, 2010)
  5. ^ Ukraine's Beresnyeva wins 25K at Euro swimming[dead link‍], SI.com (August 8, 2010)
  6. ^ "Ukrainian swimmer Olga Beresnyeva disqualified and excluded from the Olympic Games London 2012 after failing re-analysis of samples". IOC. 12 June 2015. Retrieved 12 June 2015.