Yelena Alexeyevna Skalinskaya ( kk, Елена Алексеевна Скалинская; born July 28, 1987) is a Kazakh former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle and breaststroke events. She is a five-time national champion and record holder in the same stroke. Skalinskaya is a member of the swimming team for

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, along with her fellow country teammate Marina Mulyayeva. Skalinskaya qualified for two swimming events at the

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, by clearing FINA B-standard entry times of 26.50 (50 m freestyle) and 58.00 (100 m freestyle) 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 ...

. In the

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, Skalinskaya challenged seven other swimmers on the second heat, including three-time Olympian

Agnese Ozoliņa Agnese Ozoliņa (born November 12, 1979) is a Latvian former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. She is a three-time Olympian (1996, 2000, and 2004), a multiple-time Latvian and Baltic record holder, and a seven-time All-North Co ...

of Latvia. She raced to second place and forty-first overall by more than a second behind winner

Vanessa García Vanessa García Vega (born July 18, 1984 in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico) is an Olympic and National Record holding freestyle swimmer from Puerto Rico. She swam for her native country at the 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016 Olympics. García's silver m ...

of Puerto Rico in 58.56. In the 50 m freestyle, Skalinskaya placed thirty-ninth overall on the last day of preliminaries. Swimming in heat six, she edged out India's Shikha Tandon to take a fifth spot by 0.04 of a second, outside her entry time of 27.04.

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Player Bio – Maryland Terrapins
1987 births Living people Kazakhstani female breaststroke swimmers Olympic swimmers for Kazakhstan Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Kazakhstani female freestyle swimmers People from Jambyl Region Maryland Terrapins women's swimmers Expatriate swimmers in the United States University of Maryland, College Park alumni 21st-century Kazakhstani women {{Kazakhstan-swimming-bio-stub