Elina Partõka, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Elina Partõka

Olympic swimmer

Date of Birth: 08-Feb-1983

Place of Birth: Donetsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine

Profession: swimmer

Nationality: Estonia

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Elina Partõka (born 2 August 1983) is an Estonian former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.
She is a three-time Olympian (2000, 2004, and 2008), and a daughter of Valentin Partõka, who competed in both 200 and 400 m individual medley at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, representing the Soviet Union. Partoka made her first Estonian team, as a 17-year-old swimming teen at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
There, she failed to reach the semifinals in any of her individual events, finishing twenty-ninth in the 100 m freestyle (57.71), and thirty-first in the 200 m freestyle (2:05.90).At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Partoka competed only in the 200 m freestyle.
Swimming in heat three, she edged out New Zealand's Alison Fitch to earn a fourth spot and twenty-eighth overall by four hundredths of a second (0.04) in 2:03.54.Partoka swam for the third time in the 200 m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
She cleared a FINA B-standard entry time of 2:01.75 in the 200 m freestyle from the Slovak Open Championships in Bratislava.
She won the second heat by two hundredths of a second (0.02) behind 17-year old Bulgarian swimmer Nina Rangelova, breaking an Estonian record time of 2:00.64.
Partoka repeated her luck from Athens, as she shared a twenty-eighth place tie with Brazil's Monique Ferreira in the preliminaries. She posed nude for Estonian edition of Playboy in April 2009.