Petra Zahrl

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Petra Zahrl
Personal information
Full namePetra Zahrl
National teamFlag of Austria.svg  Austria
Born (1981-04-04) 4 April 1981 (age 40)
Vienna, Austria
Height1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight60 kg (132 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle, butterfly
ClubSC Donau
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing Austria
European Championships (SC)
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2000 Valencia 200 m butterfly

Petra Zahrl (born April 4, 1981) is an Austrian former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events. [1] Since 2009, she currently holds four Austrian records in the freestyle and medley relays. She also claimed a bronze medal in the 200 m butterfly (2:09.29) at the 2000 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Valencia, Spain.

Zahrl made her first Austrian team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she competed in the women's 200 m butterfly. Swimming in heat two, she picked up a third spot and twenty-third overall by seven tenths of a second (0.70) behind Macedonia's Mirjana Boševska in 2:13.29. [2]

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Zahrl qualified again for the 200 m butterfly by eclipsing a FINA A-cut of 2:10.50 from the European Championships in Madrid. [3] [4] She challenged seven other swimmers on the same heat as Sydney, including top medal favorite Éva Risztov of Hungary. She edged out 15-year-old Kwon You-Ri of South Korea to take a seventh spot by 0.38 of a second in 2:13.92. Zahrl failed to advance into the semifinals, as she managed to repeat a twenty-third-place finish from Sydney in the preliminaries. [5] [6]

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