Anastasia Diodorova, (Russian: Анастасия Алексеевна Диодорова), is a
Paralympic
The Paralympic Games or Paralympics, also known as the ''Games of the Paralympiad'', is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of physical disabilities, including impaired muscle power and impaire ...
swimmer from
Russia
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competing mainly in category S6 events.
Career
Anastasia competed in both the
2004 and
2008 Summer Paralympics
The 2008 Summer Paralympic Games (), the 13th Summer Paralympic Games, took place in Beijing, China from September 6 to 17, 2008. As with the 2008 Summer Olympics, equestrian events were held in Hong Kong and sailing events in Qingdao. It was f ...
winning a silver medal. In 2004, she competed in the 100m backstroke and 50m butterfly finishing fourth in the final of both events. In 2008, she finished fourth in the final of the 100m backstroke, eighth in the final of the 200m individual medley, in the 50m butterfly she won a silver medal behind
Fuying Jiang of China who set a new world record but ahead of Ukraine's
Olena Akopyan who had set a world record in the heats that Anastasia swam faster than in the final.
References
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Paralympic swimmers of Russia
Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Paralympic silver medalists for Russia
Russian female backstroke swimmers
Russian female butterfly swimmers
Russian female freestyle swimmers
Living people
Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
S6-classified Paralympic swimmers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Medalists at the World Para Swimming Championships
Medalists at the World Para Swimming European Championships
Paralympic medalists in swimming
20th-century Russian women
21st-century Russian women
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