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Full name | Yelena Rojkova |
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Born | Ashgabat, Turkmen SSR, Soviet Union | 27 May 1989
Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) |
Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Swimming |
Strokes | Backstroke |
Yelena Rojkova (born May 27, 1989) is a Turkmen swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events.[1] 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.[2] 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.[3][4]