Irina Nikolayevna Bespalova (born May 31, 1981) is a female

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprise ...

swimmer from

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, who represented her native country at the 2008 Summer Olympics in

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. She competed in the women's 100m butterfly and the women's 4 × 100 m medley at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

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