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| Born | April 27, 1964 Leningrad, Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yuliya Bogdanova (born 27 April 1964 in Leningrad) is a Russian former swimmer who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics. [1] she went on to win the bronze medal in the 200 metres breaststroke in 1980 Summer Olympics and she won gold medal of 100 m breaststroke in 1978 World Aquatics Championships.
Yuliya Vladimirovna Sotnikova is a Russian world indoor champion and Olympic bronze medallist in the 4 x 400 metres relay. She specializes in the 400 metres and has a personal best time of 50.73s.
Lina Kačiušytė is a Lithuanian swimmer who competed for the Soviet Union, winner of a gold medal in 200 m breaststroke with the Olympic record time of 2:29:54 at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Ute Geweniger is a former breaststroke and medley swimmer who was a leading member of the East German swimming team in the 1980s. She won two Olympic gold medals, in the 100 m breaststroke and 4×100 m medley relay at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, and set seven individual and two relay world records. She was named by Swimming World Magazine as World Swimmer of the Year in 1983 and as the European Swimmer of the Year in 1981 and 1983.
Masami Tanaka is a former breaststroke swimmer from Japan. She won the bronze medal in the 4 × 100 m Medley Relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Her winning teammates in that race were Mai Nakamura, Junko Onishi, and Sumika Minamoto. She competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996.
An Kum-ae is a North Korean judoka.
Yuliya Andreyevna Yefimova is a Russian competitive swimmer. She is the Russian record holder in the 200 metre individual medley, 50 metre breaststroke, 100 metre breaststroke, and 200 metre breaststroke. After making her Olympic debut in 2008, she went on to win the bronze medal in the 200 metre breaststroke in 2012, and silver medals in the 100 metre and 200 metre breaststroke in 2016. She is a six-time World Champion, winning the 50 metre breaststroke in 2009 and 2013, the 100 metre breaststroke in 2015, and the 200 metre breaststroke in 2013, 2017, and 2019. In 2019, she became the first woman to win the 200 metre breaststroke at a FINA World Aquatics Championships three times. She is a former world record holder in the long course 50 metre breaststroke. She has won 109 medals, including 48 gold medals, at Swimming World Cups.
Rebecca Soni is an American former competition swimmer and breaststroke specialist who is a six-time Olympic medalist. She is a former world record-holder in the 100-meter breaststroke and the 200-meter breaststroke, and is the first woman to swim the 200-meter breaststroke in under 2 minutes 20 seconds. As a member of the U.S. national team, she held the world record in the 4×100-meter medley relay from 2012 to 2017.
Yuliya Bichyk is a Belarusian rower. Partnering with Natallia Helakh, she won an Olympics bronze medal in the coxless pairs in both 2004 and 2008, and finished in fourth place in the eights in 2000.
Sally Hunter, née Sally Foster, is an Australian breaststroke swimmer. She won the silver medal in the 200-metre breaststroke event at the 2008 FINA Short Course World Championships. Hunter is an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. She competed in the 200-metre breaststroke at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, reaching the final in 2012. She won the silver medal in the 200 m breaststroke at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, and was a member of Australia's gold-medal-winning 4×100-metre medley relay team.
Birgit Treiber is a former swimmer from the German Democratic Republic. She won one gold and two silver medals in the 1976 Summer Olympics and a bronze medal in the 1980 Summer Olympics. It was later proven she was extensively involved in an illegal doping program that greatly improved her swimming abilities.
Vivien Joan Haddon now Vivien Boyd is a former swimming representative from New Zealand.
Svetlana Varganova is a Russian former swimmer who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Krasimira Bogdanova was a Bulgarian basketball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics and in the 1980 Summer Olympics. She was a wife of Petar Bogdanov.
Rikke Møller Pedersen is a Danish competitive swimmer specialising in breaststroke and from 2013 to 2021 world record holder in the 200 m breaststroke (2:19.11).
Yuliya Anatoliyivna Tkach, née Ostapchuk, is a Ukrainian freestyle wrestler. She is a member of Dynamo sports club. World champion in 2014, she competed for Ukraine at the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics.
Yuliya Volodymyrivna Pidlisna is a Ukrainian swimmer who won a silver medal in the 200 m breaststroke at the 2006 European Aquatics Championships. She also competed in three events at the 2008 Summer Olympics, but did not reach the finals.
Lyudmila Yuryevna Bogdanova is a Russian judoka, who played for the extra lightweight category. She is a multiple-time Russian judo champion, and a two-time gold medalist for the 52 kg division at the European Junior Judo Championships. She also achieved three top-five finishes in the women's 48 kg class at the European Judo Championships.
Olga Igoryevna Detenyuk is a Russian swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events. She represented her nation Russia, as a 15-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has claimed a full set of career medals in a major international competition, spanning the World and European Junior Championships and the inaugural 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore.
Yuliya Petrovna Gavrilova is a Russian sabre fencer. She won two medals, as a member of the Russian team, in sabre at the 2011 World Fencing Championships in Catania, Italy.
Yuliya Bohachova is a Ukrainian breaststroke and medley swimmer. She competed in two events at the 1988 Summer Olympics representing the Soviet Union.
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