Yekaterina Tochenaya (russian: Екатерина Точеная; born May 9, 1981) is a

Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan,, pronounced or the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the south, and the People's Republic of China to the east. ...

i former swimmer, who specialized in sprint and middle-distance freestyle events. She holds a dual citizenship status to compete internationally for

and

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, including her rare appearance at the

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. Tochenaya competed in three swimming events at the

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. She achieved FINA A-standards of 27.16 (50 m freestyle) and 58.83 (100 m freestyle) from the Russian Open Championships in

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

. On the fifth day of the Games, Tochenaya swam two events in her program, with only 90 minutes in between. First, she placed forty-third in the

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. Swimming in heat two, she came from behind the pack with a spectacular swim to pick up a sixth seed in 58.80, sufficiently enough for her personal best. More than an hour later, Tochenaya, along Nataliya Korabelnikova, Anna Korshikova, and Anjelika Solovieva, placed fourteenth in the 4×200 m freestyle relay (8:41.21). Two days later, in the

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, Tochenaya shared a forty-first seed with South Korea's

Chang Hee-Jin Chang Hee-jin ( ko, 장희진; born September 5, 1986) is a South Korean former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. She is a two-time Olympian (2000 and 2008), and a three-time All-American swimmer in the same stroke (50, 100, ...

on the morning prelims. She posted a sterling time and a personal best of 26.88 to scorch the field with a leading finish in heat four.

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1981 births Living people Russian female freestyle swimmers Olympic swimmers for Kyrgyzstan Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Kyrgyzstani female freestyle swimmers Russian emigrants to Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstani people of Russian descent Sportspeople from Volgograd {{Russia-swimming-bio-stub