Full name Yelena Rojkova Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) Name Yelena Rojkova | Weight 65 kg (143 lb) Strokes Backstroke | |
Born 27 May 1989 (age 35) ( 1989-05-27 ) Ashgabat, Turkmen SSR, Soviet Union | ||
Yelena Rojkova (born May 27, 1989) is a Turkmen swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events. Rojkova qualified for the women's 100 m backstroke at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by receiving a Universality place from FINA, in an entry time of 1:18.00. She participated in heat one against two other swimmers Lenient Obia of Nigeria, and Ana Galindo of Honduras. She rounded out a small field of three to last place by a 5.53-second margin behind winner Obia, breaking a Turkmen record of 1:15.48. Rojkova failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed forty-second overall in the preliminaries.
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