Veronica Vdovicenco

Veronica Vdovicenco
Personal information
Nationality  Moldova
Born (1985-08-27) 27 August 1985
Chişinău, Moldavian SSR
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight 61 kg (134 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle

Veronica Vdovicenco (born August 27, 1985 in Chişinău) is a Moldovan swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.[1] Vdovicenco qualified for the women's 50 m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 26.30 from the Belarus Championships in Minsk.[2] She challenged seven other swimmers on the sixth heat, including returning Olympian Ellen Lendra Hight of Zambia. She raced to fifth place by 0.28 of a second behind Christel Simms of the Philippines, with a time of 26.92 seconds. Vdovicenco failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed fiftieth out of 92 swimmers in the preliminary heats.[3]

References

  1. "Veronica Vdovicenco". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
  2. "Olympic Cut Sheet – Women's 50m Freestyle" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 46. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  3. "Women's 50m Freestyle Heat 6". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
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