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Yevgeniya Yermakova

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Name
  
Yevgeniya Yermakova


Role
  
Olympic athlete

Born
  
April 9, 1976
Almaty, Kazakhstan

Yevgeniya Yermakova (born April 9, 1976 in Almaty, Kazakhstan) is a retired female freestyle swimmer from Kazakhstan. She competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992 (Barcelona, Spain) for the Unified Team.

Her best Olympic result was finishing in fourth place at the 1992 Summer Olympics in the women's 4×100 m freestyle relay event. She was a gold medalist at the 1991 European Championships (LC) in Athens, Greece. Yermakova was barred after failing a drugs test for a diuretic in Monaco in May 2000.

She currently lives in New Zealand with her husband.

References

Yevgeniya Yermakova Wikipedia