Yekaterina Olegovna Rudenko (Kazakh: Екатерина Олеговна Руденко; born October 16, 1994) is a Kazakh swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events.[1][2] She represented her nation Kazakhstan in two editions of the Olympic Games (2008 and 2012), finished fifth in the girls' 50 m backstroke at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore, and later captured two silver medals in the 50 and 100 m backstroke at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon.[3]
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| Full name | Yekaterina Olegovna Rudenko | |||||||||||||||||
| National team |  Kazakhstan | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 16 October 1994 Aqmola, Kazakhstan | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 53 kg (117 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Backstroke | |||||||||||||||||
| College team | Drury University (U.S.)[1] | |||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Natalia Dolgikh Natalia Shpileva[1] | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Rudenko became the youngest ever swimmer (aged 13) to compete for the Kazakh team at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, swimming in the 100 m backstroke. She cruised to the top of the field with a 1:03.84 to invincibly slide under the FINA B-cut (1:03.86) by two hundredths of a second (0.02) at the Kazakhstan Open Championships three months earlier in Almaty.[4] Inexperienced to the Olympic scene, Rudenko rounded out the field to last place and forty-fifth overall in heat two with a 1:04.85.[5]
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, Rudenko competed for the second time in the women's 100 m backstroke, by downing her FINA B-cut to 1:02.60 at the Kazakhstan Open.[6] Rudenko touched behind the leader Tao Li of Singapore on the initial length in heat two, before fading down the stretch to save the seventh spot in 1:03.64, missing the semifinals with a much improved, thirty-eighth overall placement in the prelims.[7]
Two years later, at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, Rudenko upgraded her standards with a striking silver medal double in the women's 50 and 100 m backstroke, blistering a lifetime best of 28.04 (50 m backstroke) and 1:00.61 (100 m backstroke), respectively.[8][9][10]
Rudenko is currently training for the Drury Panthers women's swimming and diving team under head coach Brian Reynolds, while taking up undergraduate studies at Drury University in Springfield, Missouri.
References edit
- ^ a b c "Yekaterina Rudenko". London2012.com. LOCOG. Archived from the original on 15 May 2013. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Yekaterina Rudenko". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
- ^ "Youth Olympic Games: Andrii Govorov Posts Another Quick Time". Swimming World Magazine. 19 August 2010. Archived from the original on 30 June 2013. Retrieved 14 April 2013.
- ^ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Women's 100m Backstroke" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 64. Retrieved 14 April 2013.
- ^ "Women's 100m Backstroke Heat 2". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
- ^ "Qualifying Athletes – Women's 100 m backstroke" (PDF). FINA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 November 2012. Retrieved 12 April 2013.
- ^ "Women's 100m Backstroke Heat 2". London2012.com. LOCOG. Archived from the original on 5 December 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
- ^ "China Dominates Third Night of Swimming at Asian Games". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
- ^ "China Sets Asian Record in 400 Free Relay to Close Night". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
- ^ "Boring blown out of the water by Kazakhstan's speedy pair". Hong Kong Standard. Archived from the original on 2 December 2014. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
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