Elina Partõka - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family

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Feb 08, 1983 Donetsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine 41 years old

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About Elina Partõka

  • Elina Partõka (born 2 August 1983) is an Estonian former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.
  • She is a three-time Olympian (2000, 2004, and 2008), and a daughter of Valentin Partõka, who competed in both 200 and 400 m individual medley at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, representing the Soviet Union. Partoka made her first Estonian team, as a 17-year-old swimming teen at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
  • There, she failed to reach the semifinals in any of her individual events, finishing twenty-ninth in the 100 m freestyle (57.71), and thirty-first in the 200 m freestyle (2:05.90).At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Partoka competed only in the 200 m freestyle.
  • Swimming in heat three, she edged out New Zealand's Alison Fitch to earn a fourth spot and twenty-eighth overall by four hundredths of a second (0.04) in 2:03.54.Partoka swam for the third time in the 200 m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
  • She cleared a FINA B-standard entry time of 2:01.75 in the 200 m freestyle from the Slovak Open Championships in Bratislava.
  • She won the second heat by two hundredths of a second (0.02) behind 17-year old Bulgarian swimmer Nina Rangelova, breaking an Estonian record time of 2:00.64.
  • Partoka repeated her luck from Athens, as she shared a twenty-eighth place tie with Brazil's Monique Ferreira in the preliminaries. She posed nude for Estonian edition of Playboy in April 2009.

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