Özlem Yasemin Taşkın (born 28 October 1985) is a Turkish former swimmer, who specialized in long-distance freestyle events. She is a five-time Turkish champion in the 200 and 400 m freestyle, and a member of Galatasaray Swimming Team, under her coach Yılmaz Özüak. Taskin qualified for the women's 400 m freestyle at the

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. She eclipsed a FINA B-standard entry time of 4:23.69 from the Turkish Open Championships in

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. She challenged five other swimmers on the first heat, including two-time Olympians Pilin Tachakittiranan of Thailand and Ivanka Moralieva of Bulgaria. She raced to fourth place by 0.46 of a second behind Tachakittiranan in 4:24.08. Parshina failed to reach into the top 8 final, as she placed thirty-fifth overall in the preliminaries.

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1985 births Living people Turkish female swimmers Olympic swimmers for Turkey Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Turkish female freestyle swimmers Galatasaray Swimming swimmers 21st-century Turkish sportswomen Swimmers from Istanbul {{Turkey-swimming-bio-stub