Nationality Hungary Name Eszter Povazsay Sport Swimming Role Swimmer | Strokes Backstroke Height 1.83 m Coach Arthur Albeiro (USA) Weight 74 kg | |
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Born 14 November 1990 (age 33) ( 1990-11-14 ) Budapest, Hungary College team Louisville Cardinals (USA) | ||
University of Louisville Swimming - Eszter Povazsay, Entrepreneurship, Creativity Project
Eszter Povázsay (born November 14, 1990 in Budapest) is a Hungarian swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events. She is a five-time All-Big East performer, a varsity swimmer for the Louisville Cardinals, and a marketing student at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky.
Povazsay qualified for the women's 100 m backstroke at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 1:02.38 from the European Championships in Debrecen. She challenged seven other swimmers on the second heat, including three-time Olympians Anja Čarman of Slovenia and Sanja Jovanović of Croatia. She touched out Kazakhstan's Yekaterina Rudenko to grab a sixth spot by 0.09 of a second in 1:03.55. Povazsay failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed thirty-seventh overall in the preliminaries.