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Ukraine competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, due to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. It was the nation's seventh consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics in the post-Soviet era with its smallest representation ever.
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Laura Lahtinen is a Finnish swimmer. She competed in the women's 400 metre freestyle and the women's 200 metre butterfly at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships. She represents swim club Helsingfors simmsallskap.
Jonathan Chan Fan Keng is a Singaporean former diver. He competed in the 2020 Summer Olympics after his qualification through a victory in the 2019 Asian Diving Cup in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 8 September 2019. He is the first Singaporean diver to have qualified for the Olympic Games. Due to his Olympic qualification, Chan was nominated for the Straits Times Athlete of the Year award in 2020.
Spain competed at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary from 18 June to 3 July.
From 2015 to 2022 when the World Aquatics was still known as FINA, neutral athletes have competed under the designation Independent FINA Athlete (IFA) either due to their national federation's suspension of their governing body or as refugees.
References
- ↑ "A day in the life of Laura Hingston". Melbourne Sports Centres. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
- ↑ "18th FINA World Championships 2019: Women's 10m Platform start list" (PDF). FINA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 July 2019. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
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