Elsa Manora Nasution, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Elsa Manora Nasution

Olympic swimmer

Date of Birth: 25-Oct-1977

Place of Birth: Jakarta, Indonesia

Profession: swimmer

Nationality: Indonesia

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Elsa Manora Nasution

  • Elsa Manora Nasution (born 25 October 1977) is an Indonesian former swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events.
  • She represented Indonesia at the 2000 Summer Olympics, and later captured a bronze medal in the 100 m backstroke at the 2003 Southeast Asian Games in Hanoi, Vietnam.
  • She is also a third eldest sister of Muhammad Akbar Nasution, an elite breaststroke and medley swimmer, who competed with her at the Olympics as part of the Indonesian squad.
  • Nasution is divorced from her husband Ricky Subagja, a prominent badminton player and 1996 Olympic doubles champion.Nasution competed only in the women's 100 m backstroke at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
  • She achieved a FINA B-cut of 1:05.69 from the Asian Championships in Busan, South Korea.
  • She challenged seven other swimmers in heat two, including teenagers Sherry Tsai of Hong Kong (aged 17) and Kuan Chia-hsien of Chinese Taipei.
  • Keeping her pace from the start, she shared a fifth seed with Uruguay's Serrana Fernández in a matching time of 1:06.57, almost a full second below her entry standard.
  • Nasution failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed thirty-eighth overall in the prelims.At the 2003 Southeast Asian Games in Hanoi, Vietnam, Nasution earned a bronze medal in the 100 m backstroke with a time of 1:07.38, finishing over two body lengths behind defending champion Chonlathorn Vorathamrong of Thailand.

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