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Mar 23, 1990 Reykjavík, Capital Region, Iceland 34 years old
Olympic swimmer
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About Sigrún Brá Sverrisdóttir
- Sigrún Brá Sverrisdóttir (born March 23, 1990 in Reykjavík) is an Icelandic swimmer, who specialized in freestyle events.
- She represented her nation Iceland at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has held multiple Icelandic championship titles and national records in the women's freestyle (100, 200, and 400 m).
- Sverrisdottir is also a member of the swimming team for the Arkansas Razorbacks, while pursuing her studies at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.Sverrisdottir competed for Iceland in the women's 200 m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
- Leading up to the Games, she scored a time of 2:03.35 to beat the insurmountable FINA B-cut (2:03.50) by 0.15 of a second at the Mare Nostrum Monte Carlo Swim Meet in Monaco.
- Swimming on the outside lane in heat one, Sverrisdottir touched with a 2:04.82 to round out a six-strong field to last place, but was unable to hold off the fast-charging Croatian swimmer Anja Trišic, who finished ahead of her by more than a second on a late surge, at the final turn.
- Sverrisdottir failed to advance to the semifinals, as she placed forty-fifth overall in the prelims.
