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Place of Birth: Bratislava, Bratislava Region, Slovakia
About Katarína Filová
- Katarína Filová (born 14 May 1989 in Bratislava) is a Slovak swimmer, who specializes in sprint freestyle events.
- She is a multiple-time Slovak freestyle relay record holder, and a two-time 2013 Atlantic Coast Conference team champion.
- Filova is also a resident athlete for J&T Sport Team Bratislava, and is coached and trained by Gabriel Baran.Filova qualified for two swimming events at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, by achieving the FINA B-standard entry times of 55.66 (100 m freestyle) and 2:01.02 (200 m freestyle) at the Grand Prix Slovakia in her home city Bratislava.
- In the 200 m freestyle, Filova challenged seven other swimmers in the second heat, including former Olympic champion Camelia Potec of Romania.
- Swimming in lane eight, Filova edged out Austria's Jördis Steinegger to pick up sixth spot and twenty-eighth overall by 0.36 of a second in 2:02.03.
- In her second event, 100 m freestyle, Filova pulled off another sixth-place finish in heat four, a quarter of a second (0.25) behind Olympic breaststroke champion Ruta Meilutyte of Lithuania in a time of 56.58.
- Filova failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed thirty-first overall out of 48 swimmers in the preliminaries.Filova is currently a fourth-year junior with an international studies major at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.
- She is also one of two Slovak athletes, alongside hammer thrower Marcel Lomnický, who train for the Virginia Tech Hokies under head coach Ned Skinner.
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