Nationality Azerbaijani | Name Natali Pronina | |
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Born August 12, 1987 (age 36) ( 1987-08-12 ) Baku, Azerbaijan Sport Paralympic swimming S12 Event(s) Women\'s 50 metre Freestyle - S12, Women\'s 100 metre Freestyle S12, Women\'s 400 metre Freestyle S12, Women\'s 100 metre Breaststroke - SB12, Women\'s 100 metre Backstroke - S12, Women\'s 200 metre individual medley - SM12 | ||
Nataliya Filina (born 12 August 1987) is an Olympic swimmer from Azerbaijan. She swam for Azerbaijan at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and also in three editions of the World Championships (2003, 2005, and 2009).
Filina qualified for the women's 100 m breaststroke at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by receiving a Universality place from FINA, in an entry time of 1:19.49. She challenged seven other swimmers in heat one, including Bolivia's Katerine Moreno, who competed at her third Olympics since 1988. She raced to fourth place by nearly a two-second margin behind winner Moreno in 1:20.21. Filina failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed forty-fourth overall in the preliminaries.
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