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Larisa Ilchenko

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Sport
  
Swimming

Height
  
1.71 m

Role
  
Swimmer


Name
  
Larisa Ilchenko

Club
  
Volga Swimming Club

Weight
  
58 kg

Larisa Ilchenko Larisa Ilchenko Pictures XII FINA World Championships

Born
  
18 November 1988 (age 36) (
1988-11-18
)
Volgograd, Russia

Olympic medals
  
Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's marathon 10 kilometre

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Larisa Dmitriyevna Ilchenko (Russian: Лариса Дмитриевна Ильченко; born 18 November 1988) is a Russian long-distance swimmer. She has won eight world titles and a gold at the 2008 Olympics.

Larisa Ilchenko Larisa Ilchenko Photos XII FINA World Championships

Ilchenko has dominated long distance swimming since her first World Championships in Dubai, 2004 where, aged just 16 won by over 30 seconds . The following year in Montreal, she had a much tougher time as the veterans pushed her under and held her up, but still won with a final sprint. This has been the pattern of all her subsequent victories, battling her way through the pack before sprinting clear at the end. She doubled up in Napoli 2006 to become both the 5 km and 10 km open water world champion. She has won both 5 km and 10 km events at all subsequent World Championships. The American magazine Swimming World named her open water swimmer of the year in 2006, 2007 and 2008.

Larisa Ilchenko The Daily News of Open Water Swimming Shocking News

She won the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics in the swimming 10 km, using her trademark closing kick after being behind the leaders for 9,900 meters of the 10,000-meter swim. For this and other achievements, she was awarded the Order of Friendship in 2009.

Larisa Ilchenko Larisa Ilchenko Pictures Olympics Day 12 Swimming Zimbio

After sustaining an injury in 2009 and hypothermia at the 2010 World Open Water Swimming Championships, she de facto retired. In August 2012 she married a Russian swimmer Sergey Perunin. In September 2012 she was inducted to the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame.

Larisa Ilchenko Salute to ladies swimming 10km

References

Larisa Ilchenko Wikipedia


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