Erla Dögg Haraldsdóttir
Icelandic swimmer
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Erla Dögg Haraldsdóttir (born 19 April 1988) is an Icelandic swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke and individual medley events.[1] She represented her nation Iceland at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has claimed a total of twenty-four Icelandic championship titles and eleven national records in both the 50 and 100 m breaststroke.
Iceland| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Erla Dögg Haraldsdóttir |
| National team | Iceland |
| Born | 19 April 1988 Njarðvík, Iceland |
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| Weight | 68 kg (150 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Breaststroke, medley |
| College team | Old Dominion University (U.S.) |
Haraldsdottir competed for Iceland in two swimming events at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Leading up to the Games, she posted a time of 1:10.66 (100 m breaststroke) to eclipse the FINA B-cut at the Mare Nostrum Arena International Meet in Canet-en-Roussillon, France, and 2:18.74 (200 m individual medley) at the Icelandic Championships in Reykjavík.[2][3] In the 100 m breaststroke, Haraldsdottir touched with a 1:11.78 for the sixth spot and fortieth overall in heat three, just a shy of her entry time by 1.12 seconds.[4] The following day, Haraldsdottir raced her way to fourth place in heat one of the 200 m individual medley with a 2:20.53, but failed to advance to the semifinals, finishing thirty-fifth overall in the prelims.[5]
Haraldsdottir is a member of the swimming team, along with her compatriot Árni Már Árnason, for the Old Dominion Monarchs, and a graduate of civil engineering at the Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.[6] Haraldsdottir also became the first female swimmer to represent her university at the 2011 NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships, where she set her own personal record of 1:01.15 in the women's breaststroke.[7]
