Elín Sigurðardóttir
Icelandic swimmer (born 1973)
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Elín Sigurðardóttir (born 15 January 1973) is an Icelandic former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.[1] Sigurdardottir represented Iceland at the 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games, and also held an Icelandic record in the 50 m freestyle, before it was eventually broken by Ragnheiður Ragnarsdóttir and Sarah Blake Bateman.
Iceland| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Elín Sigurðardóttir |
| National team | Iceland |
| Born | 15 January 1973 Hafnarfjörður, Iceland |
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) |
| Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Freestyle |
Sigurdardottir made her first Icelandic team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Swimming in heat three of the women's 50 m freestyle, she raced to a sixth seed and 37th overall in 26.90, a third of a second behind leader Dominique Diezi of Switzerland.[2]
At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Sigurdardottir competed again in the 50 m freestyle.[3] She achieved a FINA B-cut of 26.93 from the Mare Nostrum meet in Barcelona, Spain.[4] She challenged seven other swimmers in heat five, including teenagers Chiang Tzu-ying of Chinese Taipei, Marijana Šurković of Croatia, and Jūratė Ladavičiūtė of Lithuania. Diving in with a 0.79-second deficit, Sigurdardottir faded down the stretch on the final 15-metre mark to last place in 27.58, almost a full second behind leader Chiang. Sigurdardottir failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed 51st overall out of 74 swimmers in the prelims.[5][6]
