Darya Sergeyevna Pikalova (russian: Да́рья Серге́евна Пика́лова, Stukalova; born 22 August 1994) is a Russian

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swimmer. Her husband Alexander Pikalov is also a paralympic swimmer.

Career

She won a silver medal and three bronze medals on her debut Paralympic appearance representing Russia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. She won five gold medals and a silver medal at the

2013 IPC Swimming World Championships The 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships was an international swimming competition, the biggest meet for athletes with a disability since the 2012 Summer Paralympics. It was held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and lasted from 12 to 18 August. Around ...

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. She also represented

Russian Paralympic Committee athletes at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Russian athletes competed in the 2020 Summer Paralympics under the flag of the Russian Paralympic Committee (acronym RPC). On 9 December 2019, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) banned Russia from all international sport for a period of four y ...

and claimed bronze medal in the women's butterfly S13 event at the

2020 Summer Paralympics The , branded as the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, was an international multi-sport parasports event held from 24 August to 5 September 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. They were the 16th Summer Paralympic Games as organized by the International Paralym ...

References

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