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Full name
  
Triin Aljand

Weight
  
68 kg

National team
  
Name
  
Triin Aljand

Partner
  
Peter Mankoc


Sport
  
Role
  
Swimmer

Education
  
Texas A&M University

Club
  
Audentese SK

Height
  
1.79 m

Parents
  
Kaja Aljand, Riho Aljand

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Born
  
8 July 1985 (age 38) (
1985-07-08
)
Tallinn, Estonia

Siblings
  
Martti Aljand, Berit Aljand

College team
  
Texas A&M University

Women's 50m BUTTERFLY Final - European Swimming Championships 2012


Triin Aljand (born July 8, 1985) is a retired Estonian swimmer who won a silver medal at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships in 50 m butterfly. She competed in the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics in the 50 m and 100 m freestyle and 100 butterfly, but never reached the finals. She also participated in multiple FINA World Aquatics Championships.

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She attended Texas A&M University, where she swam for the women's varsity team. On November 21, 2008, she broke the NCAA record for the 50-yard freestyle with her time of 21.61, though the record was disqualified after it was found the pool was just over one inch short.

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Swimming EC 2010, Budapest: Women's 50 m butterfly - final


Records

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She set the Estonian national records three times in the 50-m butterfly on December 12, 2008. She set another national record in the 100-m butterfly at the 2008 European Short Course Swimming Championships on December 14, 2008.

Personal

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Her brother Martti and twin sister Berit are also swimmers. Her father Riho is a swimming coach, and her grandmother, Ulvi Voog (Indrikson) is a former Olympic swimmer.

She is married to Slovenian swimmer Peter Mankoč. They have a daughter Brina, who was born in 2015.

References

Triin Aljand Wikipedia