Marina Mulyayeva, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetMarina Mulyayeva
Olympic swimmer
Date of Birth: 30-Apr-1981
Place of Birth: Almaty, Kazakhstan
Profession: swimmer
Nationality: Kazakhstan
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Marina Mulyayeva
- Marina Vladimirovna Mulyayeva (Kazakh: ?????? ???????????? ???????; born April 30, 1981) is a Kazakh former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle and individual medley events.
- She is a six-time national record holder, a multiple-time ACC titleholder, and one-time NCAA Honorable Mention All-American swimmer.
- Mulyayeva is also a varsity swimmer for the Maryland Terrapins and an international business major at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland. Mulyayeva made her first Kazakh team, as a 19-year-old, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she competed in the women's 200 m individual medley.
- She edged out Kyrgyzstan's Alexandra Zertsalova on the freestyle leg to lead the first heat in 2:24.09.At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Mulyayeva placed twenty-fifth in the 200 m individual medley.
- Swimming in the same heat from Sydney, she edged out Denmark's Louise Mai Jansen to save a fifth spot by nearly three seconds in 2:24.25.Mulyayeva decided to drop her specialty event, the 200 m individual medley, and experiment with the 50 m freestyle, when she competed for her third time at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
- She achieved a FINA B-standard of 26.30 from the Kazakhstan Open Championships in Almaty.
- She challenged seven other swimmers in heat seven, including fellow three-time Olympic veteran Mariya Bugakova of Uzbekistan.
- She raced to sixth place by three hundredths of a second (0.03) behind Hong Kong's Elaine Chan in 26.57.
- Mulyayeva failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed forty-sixth overall out of 92 swimmers in the preliminaries.
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