Eva Donde

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Eva Donde
Personal information
Full nameEva Donde
National teamFlag of Kenya.svg  Kenya
Born (1989-10-17) 17 October 1989 (age 34)
Height1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight63 kg (139 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
ClubOtter Club [1]
CoachWhitney Pragassa [1]

Eva Donde (born October 17, 1989) is a Kenyan swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. [2] She held Kenyan records in long and short course 50 m freestyle, until they were both broken by Achieng Ajulu-Bushell in 2009. [3] Donde is also a member of Otter Club, and is trained by her longtime coach Whitney Pragassa. [1]

Donde qualified for the women's 50 m freestyle, as a 14-year-old, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by receiving a Universality place from FINA, in an entry time of 29.83. [4] She challenged seven other swimmers in heat three, including 13-year-old Tojohanitra Andriamanjatoarimanana of Madagascar. She posted a lifetime best of 29.47 to take a third seed by 0.14 of a second behind winner Ermelinda Zamba of Mozambique. Donde failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed fifty-seventh overall out of 75 swimmers on the last day of preliminaries. [5] [6]

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