Full name Julyana Kury Name Julyana Kury Nationality Brazil Height 1.79 m | Sport Swimming Weight 71 kg Strokes Freestyle | |
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Born June 16, 1983 (age 40) ( 1983-06-16 ) Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil | ||
Corinthians Natação - Preparação Física Junior e Senior
Julyana Kury (born June 16, 1983 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian competitive swimmer, who joined the Brazilian national delegation in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, as a reserve.
Kury served two years of suspension due to a doping, losing the chance to swim the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She won a gold medal in the 4×100-metre freestyle relay and bronze medals in the 50-metre freestyle and 200-metre backstroke at the 2008 South American Championship. She won a bronze medal in the 100-metre individual medley at the 2007 World Cup in Belo Horizonte.
On 6 September 2009, she broke the South American record in the 4×100-metre freestyle (Olympic pool), with a time of 3:41.49, along with Tatiana Lemos, Monique Ferreira and Michelle Lenhardt
She was at the 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Irvine, where she finished 17th in the 50-metre backstroke, 15th in the 50-metre freestyle and 41st in the 100-metre freestyle.
In World Military Games, conducted in 2010 at Warendorf, Germany, she won the gold medal in the 4×100-metre freestyle.
At the 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m), in Dubai, she was at the 4×100-metre freestyle final, finishing in 8th place. In this relay, she broke the short-course South American record, with a time of 3:35,95, along with Tatiana Lemos, Flavia Delaroli and Michelle Lenhardt