Eydis Konráðsdóttir, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Eydis Konráðsdóttir

Olympic swimmer

Date of Birth: 16-Feb-1978

Place of Birth: Keflavík, Iceland

Profession: swimmer

Nationality: Iceland

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Eydis Konráðsdóttir

  • Eydis Konráðsdóttir (born February 16, 1978) is an Icelandic former swimmer, who specialized in sprint butterfly events.
  • She represented Iceland in two editions of the Olympic Games (1996 and 2000), and also held an Icelandic record in the 100 m butterfly until it was later broken by Kolbrún Yr Kristjánsdóttir and Sarah Blake Bateman within the 2000s decade.
  • Konradsdottir is a medicine undergraduate at the University of New South Wales, and also married to Australia's medley swimmer and three-time Olympian Matthew Dunn.Konradsdottir made her first Icelandic team, as an eighteen-year-old junior, at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where she competed in the 100 m butterfly.
  • Swimming in heat three, she picked up a fifth seed and twenty-ninth overall in 1:03.41.At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Konradsdottir competed again in the 100 m butterfly.
  • She achieved a FINA B-cut of 1:02.93 from the Mare Nostrum Meet in Canet-en-Roussillon, France.
  • She challenged seven other swimmers in heat three, including Thailand's three-time Olympian Praphalsai Minpraphal.
  • She posted a seventh-place time of 1:03.27 in her own race to edge out Trinidad and Tobago's Siobhan Cropper by 0.07 seconds.
  • Konradsdottir failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed thirty-ninth overall on the first day of prelims.

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