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Place of Birth: Hafnarfjörður, Capital Region, Iceland
About Elín Sigurðardóttir
- Elín Sigurðardóttir (born 15 January 1973) is an Icelandic former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.
- Sigurdardottir represented Iceland in two editions of the Olympic Games (1996 and 2000), and also formerly held an Icelandic record in the 50 m freestyle, before it was eventually broken by Ragnheiður Ragnarsdóttir and Sarah Blake Bateman. Sigurdardottir made her first Icelandic team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
- Swimming in heat three of the women's 50 m freestyle, she raced to a sixth seed and thirty-seventh overall in 26.90, a third of a second behind leader Dominique Diezi of Switzerland.At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Sigurdardottir competed again in the 50 m freestyle.
- She achieved a FINA B-cut of 26.93 from the Mare Nostrum meet in Barcelona, Spain.
- She challenged seven other swimmers in heat five, including teenagers Chiang Tzu-ying of Chinese Taipei, Marijana Šurkovic of Croatia, and Jurate Ladaviciute of Lithuania.
- Diving in with a 0.79-second deficit, Sigurdardottir faded down the stretch on the final 15-metre mark to last place in 27.58, almost a full second behind leader Chiang.
- Sigurdardottir failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed fifty-first overall out of 74 swimmers in the prelims.
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