Marina Vladimirovna Mulyayeva ( kz, Марина Владимировна Муляева; born April 30, 1981) is a Kazakh former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle and individual medley events. She is a six-time national record holder, a multiple-time ACC titleholder, and a one-time NCAA Honorable Mention All-American swimmer. Mulyayeva is also a varsity swimmer for the

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and an international business major at the

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. Mulyayeva made her first Kazakh team, as a 19-year-old, at the

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, where she competed in the women's 200 m individual medley. She edged out Kyrgyzstan's Alexandra Zertsalova on the freestyle leg to lead the first heat in 2:24.09. At the

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, Mulyayeva placed twenty-fifth in the 200 m individual medley. Swimming in the same heat from Sydney, she edged out Denmark's

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to save a fifth spot by nearly three seconds in 2:24.25. Mulyayeva decided to drop her specialty event, the 200 m individual medley, and experiment with the 50 m freestyle, when she competed for her third time at the

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. She achieved a FINA B-standard of 26.30 from the Kazakhstan Open Championships in

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. She challenged seven other swimmers in heat seven, including fellow three-time Olympic veteran

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of Uzbekistan. She raced to sixth place by three hundredths of a second (0.03) behind Hong Kong's Elaine Chan in 26.57. Mulyayeva failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed forty-sixth overall out of 92 swimmers in the preliminaries.

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Player Bio – Maryland Terrapins
1981 births Living people Kazakhstani female medley swimmers Olympic swimmers for Kazakhstan Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Kazakhstani female freestyle swimmers Sportspeople from Almaty Maryland Terrapins women's swimmers University of Maryland, College Park alumni {{Kazakhstan-swimming-bio-stub