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Place of Birth: Tallinn, Estonia
About Jelena Petrova
- Jelena Petrova (born June 6, 1989) is an Estonian former swimmer, who specialized in long-distance freestyle events.
- She is a 19-time Estonian long-course swimming champion, 11-time short-course swimming champion and a three-time Nordic junior champion. Petrova qualified for the women's 800 m freestyle, as Estonia's youngest swimmer (aged 15), at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 9:00.40 from the European Junior Championships in Lisbon, Portugal.
- She challenged six other swimmers on the first heat, including El Salvador's Golda Marcus (a varsity swimmer for the Florida State Seminoles).
- Petrova cruised to third place by two tenths of a second (0.20) behind fellow 15-year-old Kwon You-Ri of South Korea in 9:01.62.
- Petrova failed to advance into the final, as she placed twenty-third overall in the preliminaries.She holds Estonian record in 800m freestyle swimming (Short Course).
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