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Place of Birth: Kropyvnytskyi, Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine
About Inna Nikitina
- Inna Nikitina (Ukrainian: ???? ????????; born 12 September 1982) is a Ukrainian former swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.
- She is a 2000 Olympian, a fourth-place finalist at the European Championships, and a multiple-time national age group champion.
- During her sporting career, Nikitina trained for Dynamo Kryvyi Rih's swim team under her longtime coach and mentor Viktor Zheltyakov.Nikitina made her Olympic debut, as a 14-year-old teen, at the 1997 European Aquatics Championships in Seville, Spain, where she finished off the podium in the 200 m breaststroke with a fourth-place time of 2:29.76.
- The following year, at the 1998 FINA World Championships in Perth, Australia, Nikitina placed eighteenth from the prelims in the 200 m breaststroke at 2:33.18.At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Nikitina competed only in the women's 200 m breaststroke.
- She achieved a FINA B-cut of 2:33.39 from the Ukrainian Championships in Kiev.
- She challenged seven other swimmers in heat two, including teenagers Nicolette Teo of Singapore (aged 14) and Siow Yi Ting (aged 16).
- Entering the race with a fastest entry time, Nikitina seized off a powerful lead at the final turn until she dropped her pace on the final stretch to a second seed in 2:34.20, almost a full second behind leader Ilkay Dikmen of Turkey.
- Nikitina failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed twenty-sixth overall in the prelims.
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