Lára Hrund Bjargardóttir
Personal information | |
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Full name | Lára Hrund Bjargardóttir |
National team | ![]() |
Born | Reykjavík, Iceland |
15 July 1981
Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) |
Weight | 58 kg (128 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Swimming |
Strokes | Freestyle, medley |
Club | Sundfélagið Húnar |
College team | University of California, Irvine (U.S.) |
Lára Hrund Bjargardóttir (born July 15, 1981) is an Icelandic former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and individual medley events.[1] She is a multiple-time Big West Conference honoree, four-time Icelandic record holder, and a member of the swimming team for the UC Irvine Anteaters at the University of California, Irvine.[2][3]
Bjargardottir made her first Icelandic team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. There, she failed to advance into the semifinals in any of her individual events, finishing twenty-seventh in the 200 m freestyle (2:05.22), and thirty-sixth in the 100 m freestyle (58.44).[4][5]
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Bjargardottir shortened her program on her second Olympic appearance, swimming only in the 200 m individual medley. She achieved a FINA B-standard of 2:20.35 from the World Championships in Barcelona, Spain.[6][7] Bjargardottir challenged five other swimmers in heat one, including two-time Olympians Marina Mulyayeva of Kazakhstan and Vered Borochovski of Israel. She raced to fourth place by 0.62 of a second behind 16-year-old swimmer Park Na-Ri of South Korea with a time of 2:22.00. Bjargardottir failed to qualify for the semifinals, as she placed twenty-seventh overall for the second time in the preliminaries.[8][9]
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- Female medley swimmers
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