Darya Viktorovna Parshina (russian: Дарья Викторовна Паршина; born 9 January 1988) is a Russian former swimmer, who specialized in long-distance freestyle events. She set a junior European record of 4:10.79 to claim the 400 m freestyle title at the 2004 European Junior Swimming Championships in
Lisbon, Portugal
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. She is a member of the Penza Army Sports Club, and is trained by her long-time coach and mentor Natalia Kozlova.
Parshina qualified for the
women's 400 m freestyle, as a 16-year-old, at the
2004 Summer Olympics in
Athens
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. She eclipsed a FINA B-standard entry time of 4:14.41 from the Russian Championships in
Moscow
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. She challenged seven other swimmers on the fourth heat, including top medal favorites
Otylia Jędrzejczak
Otylia Jędrzejczak (; born 13 December 1983) is a Polish swimmer. She was the Olympic champion from 2004 Athens in the 200 metre butterfly. She finished 4th in this event in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and also swam at the 2000 Summ ...
of Poland and
Kaitlin Sandeno of the United States. She rounded out the field to last place by a 5.21-second margin behind Spain's
Erika Villaécija García in 4:18.24. Parshina failed to advance into the final, as she placed twenty-fifth overall in the preliminaries.
Four months after the Olympics, Parshina earned a silver medal in the same program at the
2004 European Short Course Swimming Championships
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in
Vienna, Austria
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. She set a short-course personal best of 4:04.56, just nearly a second behind winner
Keri-Anne Payne
Keri-anne Payne (born 9 December 1987), also known by her married name Keri-anne Carry, is a South African-born British swimmer, specialising in marathon open water swimming, and long-distance freestyle swimming in the pool. She is a two-time 1 ...
of Great Britain.
References
External links
Profile – Russian Swimming
1988 births
Living people
Russian female swimmers
Olympic swimmers for Russia
Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Russian female freestyle swimmers
Sportspeople from Penza
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