Personal information | |
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Full name | Elena Popovska |
National team | North Macedonia |
Born | Skopje, SR Macedonia, SFR Yugoslavia | 6 January 1990
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) |
Weight | 63 kg (139 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Swimming |
Strokes | Freestyle |
Club | PK Skopje [1] |
Elena Popovska ( Macedonian: Елена Поповска; born January 6, 1990) is a Macedonian swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. [2] [1] She represented the Republic of Macedonia at the 2008 Summer Olympics, placing among the top 50 swimmers in the 100 m freestyle. [3]
Popovska was invited by FINA through the Universality rule to compete as a lone female swimmer for Macedonia in the men's 100 m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. [3] Swimming against fellow Olympic debutants Madeleine Scerri of Malta and Olga Hachatryan of Turkmenistan in heat one, Popovska overhauled a minute barrier with a lifetime best of 59.93 to blaze her way for the second spot and forty-seventh overall on the evening prelims, but failed to advance to the semifinals. [4] [5]
Personal information | |
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Full name | Elena Popovska |
National team | North Macedonia |
Born | Skopje, SR Macedonia, SFR Yugoslavia | 6 January 1990
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) |
Weight | 63 kg (139 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Swimming |
Strokes | Freestyle |
Club | PK Skopje [1] |
Elena Popovska ( Macedonian: Елена Поповска; born January 6, 1990) is a Macedonian swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. [2] [1] She represented the Republic of Macedonia at the 2008 Summer Olympics, placing among the top 50 swimmers in the 100 m freestyle. [3]
Popovska was invited by FINA through the Universality rule to compete as a lone female swimmer for Macedonia in the men's 100 m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. [3] Swimming against fellow Olympic debutants Madeleine Scerri of Malta and Olga Hachatryan of Turkmenistan in heat one, Popovska overhauled a minute barrier with a lifetime best of 59.93 to blaze her way for the second spot and forty-seventh overall on the evening prelims, but failed to advance to the semifinals. [4] [5]