Kateryna Dikidzhi
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FullnameKateryna Dikidzhi
Nationalteam
Ukraine
UkraineBorn11 July 1991
Rivne, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Rivne, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Height1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
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| Full name | Kateryna Dikidzhi | |||||||||||||||||
| National team | Ukraine | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 11 July 1991 Rivne, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 60 kg (132 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||
| Club | Dynamo Rivne | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Kateryna Dikidzhi (Ukrainian: Катерина Дікіджі; born July 11, 1991) is a Ukrainian swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.[1] She sprinted to two gold medals in the 50 and 100 m freestyle at the 2007 European Junior Swimming Championships in Antwerp, Belgium, with respective times of 25.95 and 56.51.[2][3]
As a 17-year-old teen, Dikidzhi teamed up with Darya Stepanyuk, Nataliya Khudyakova, and Hanna Dzerkal for the Ukrainian squad in the women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Swimming the second leg, Dikidzhi recorded a split of 55.44 seconds, and the Ukrainian went on to finish the prelims in fourteenth overall with a final time of 3:44.72.[4]
