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Place of Birth: Zagreb, Zagreb County, Croatia
About Monika Babok
- Monika Babok (born November 30, 1991) is a Croatian swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events.
- She represented her nation Croatia at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has won a silver medal in the 50 m butterfly (27.48) at the 2007 European Junior Swimming Championships in Antwerp, Belgium.
- Babok was a member of the SMU Mustangs swimming and diving team, and a graduate of sports management at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Babok competed for the Croatian swimming team in the women's 50 m freestyle, as Croatia's youngest swimmer (aged 16), at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
- She qualified for the Games with a 26.25 to eclipse the insurmountable FINA B-cut (26.32) by 0.07 of a second at the European Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
- Swimming as the fastest entrant in heat seven, Babok could not produce her pre-Olympic effort with a disappointing 26.84 to accept the seventh spot in a splash-and-dash finish.
- Babok failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed forty-ninth overall out of 92 swimmers in the prelims.
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