Elina Partõka

Elina Partõka (born 2 August 1983) is an Estonian former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.[1] She is a three-time Olympian (2000, 2004, and 2008), and a daughter of Valentin Partyka, who competed in both 200 and 400 m individual medley at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, representing the Soviet Union.

Elina Partõka
Personal information
Full nameElina Partõka
National team Estonia
Born (1983-08-02) 2 August 1983
Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR,
Soviet Union
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight65 kg (143 lb)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesFreestyle
ClubNRK Kohtla-Järve

Partoka made her first Estonian team, as a 17-year-old swimming teen at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. There, she failed to reach the semifinals in any of her individual events, finishing twenty-ninth in the 100 m freestyle (57.71), and thirty-first in the 200 m freestyle (2:05.90).[2][3]

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Partõka competed only in the 200 m freestyle. Swimming in heat three, she edged out New Zealand's Alison Fitch to earn a fourth spot and twenty-eighth overall by four hundredths of a second (0.04) in 2:03.54.[4][5]

Partõka swam for the third time in the 200 m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She cleared a FINA B-standard entry time of 2:01.75 in the 200 m freestyle from the Slovak Open Championships in Bratislava.[6] She won the second heat by two hundredths of a second (0.02) behind 17-year old Bulgarian swimmer Nina Rangelova, breaking an Estonian record time of 2:00.64. Partõka repeated her luck from Athens, as she shared a twenty-eighth place tie with Brazil's Monique Ferreira in the preliminaries.[7] She posed nude for Estonian edition of Playboy in April 2009.[8]

See also

References
  1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Elina Partõka". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
  2. "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 200m Freestyle Heat 3" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 183. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 August 2011. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
  3. "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 100m Freestyle Heat 2" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 174. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 August 2011. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
  4. "Women's 200m Freestyle Heat 3". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 16 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  5. Thomas, Stephen (16 August 2004). "Women's 200 Freestyle, Prelims Day 3: Dana Vollmer Stakes Her Claim as Fastest Qualifier, Benko Also Through to Evening Round". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 30 June 2013. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
  6. "Olympic Cut Sheet – Women's 200m Freestyle" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 52. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  7. "Women's 200m Freestyle Heat 2". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
  8. "Aprillikuu Playboy kaanestaar on ujuja Elina Partõka 2". Retrieved 20 January 2016.


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