Anastasiya Sergeyevna Prilepa (also ''Anastassiya Prilepa'', kk, Анастасия Сергеевна Прилепа; born March 15, 1990) is a Kazakh swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events. She is a multiple-time Kazakhstan champion in all backstroke distances, and holds two titles at the Asian Age Group Championships.
Prilepa qualified for the
women's 100 m backstroke, as Kazakhstan's youngest swimmer (aged 14), at the
2004 Summer Olympics
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in
Athens
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. She cleared a FINA B-standard entry time of 1:05.43 from the Kazakhstan Open Championships in
Almaty
Almaty (; kk, Алматы; ), formerly known as Alma-Ata ( kk, Алма-Ата), is the List of most populous cities in Kazakhstan, largest city in Kazakhstan, with a population of about 2 million. It was the capital of Kazakhstan from 1929 to ...
. She challenged seven other swimmers in heat two, including Uzbekistan's Olga Gnedovskaya, who shared the same age with Prilepa. She raced to seventh place by a 3.18-second margin behind winner
Kiera Aitken
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of Bermuda in 1:07.55. Prilepa failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed thirty-eighth overall in the preliminaries.
References
External links
Profile – Kazakhstan Swimming Federation
1990 births
Living people
Kazakhstani female backstroke swimmers
Olympic swimmers of Kazakhstan
Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Almaty
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