Yana Klochkova

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Medal record
Competitor for Image:Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine
Women's swimming
Olympic Games
Gold 2000 Sydney[1] 200 m individual medley
Gold 2000 Sydney 400 m individual medley
Gold 2004 Athens[2] 200 m individual medley
Gold 2004 Athens 400 m individual medley
Silver 2000 Sydney 800 m freestyle
World Championships - Long Course
Gold 2001 Fukuoka 400 m individual medley
Silver 2001 Fukuoka 200 m individual medley
Gold 2001 Fukuoka 400 m freestyle
World Championships - Short Course
Gold 2002 Moscow[3] 400 m freestyle
Gold 2002 Moscow 200 m individual medly
Gold 2002 Moscow 400 m individual medley
Silver 2000 Athens[4] 400 m freestyle
Gold 2000 Athens 200 m individual medley
Gold 2000 Athens 400 m individual medley

Yana Oleksandrivna Klochkova (Ukrainian: Яна Олександрівна Клочкова; born August 7, 1982 in Simferopol) is a Ukrainian swimmer, who has won five Olympic medals in her career, with four of them being gold.

Her gold medals came in the 200 meter individual medley and the 400 meter individual medley at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics; her silver medal came in the 800 meter freestyle at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She has also won ten titles at swimming's world championships, nineteen european championship titles. She currently holds the short-course world record in the 400 meter individual medley. Her 400 I.M. world record was broken by American Katie Hoff at the 2007 World Championships in Melbourne. In 2003 she won four golds at the Summer Universiade in South Korea. She was also awarded the Hero of Ukraine medal. In 2004, she was named by Swimming World magazine as the World Female Swimmer of the Year.

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[edit] Titles

Some of Yana Klochkova's titles:

[edit] Olympic Champion

[edit] World Champion, Long Course

[edit] World Champion, Short Course

  • 1999, Hong Kong: 400 m medley
  • 2000, Athens: 200 m medley
  • 2000, Athens: 400 m medley
  • 2002, Moscow: 400 m freestyle
  • 2002, Moscow: 200 m medley
  • 2002, Moscow: 400 m medley

[edit] European Champion, Long Course

  • 1999, Istanbul: 200 m medley
  • 1999, Istanbul: 400 m medley
  • 2000, Helsinki: 400 m freestyle
  • 2000, Helsinki: 200 m medley
  • 2000, Helsinki: 400 m medley
  • 2002, Berlin: 400 m freestyle
  • 2002, Berlin: 200 m medley
  • 2002, Berlin: 400 m medley
  • 2004, Madrid: 200 m medley
  • 2004, Madrid: 400 m medley

[edit] European Champion, Short Course

  • 1999, Lisbon: 400 m freestyle
  • 1999, Lisbon: 800 m freestyle
  • 1999, Lisbon: 200 m medley
  • 1999, Lisbon: 400 m medley
  • 2000, Valencia: 200 m medley
  • 2000, Valencia: 400 m medley
  • 2001, Antwerp: 200 m medley
  • 2002, Riesa: 200 m medley
  • 2002, Riesa: 400 m medley

[edit] Universiade Champion, Long Course

  • 2003, Deagu: 200 m freestyle
  • 2003, Deagu: 200 m butterfly
  • 2003, Deagu: 200 m medley
  • 2003, Deagu: 400 m medley

[edit] See also


Awards
Preceded by
Image:Flag of Germany.svg Hannah Stockbauer 		World Swimmer of the Year
2004 		Succeeded by
Image:Flag of Australia.svg Leisel Jones
Preceded by
Image:Flag of Germany.svg Hannah Stockbauer 		European Swimmer of the Year
2004 		Succeeded by
Image:Flag of Poland.svg Otylia Jędrzejczak


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Olympic champions in women's 200 m individual medley
1968: Claudia Kolb | 1972: Shane Gould | 1984: Tracy Caulkins | 1988: Daniela Hunger | 1992: Li Lin | 1996: Michelle Smith | 2000: Yana Klochkova | 2004: Yana Klochkova


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Olympic champions in women's 400 m individual medley
1964: Donna de Varona | 1968: Claudia Kolb | 1972: Gail Neall | 1976: Ulrike Tauber | 1980: Petra Schneider | 1984: Tracy Caulkins | 1988: Janet Evans | 1992: Krisztina Egerszegi | 1996: Michelle Smith | 2000: Yana Klochkova | 2004: Yana Klochkova


[edit] References

  1. ^ ESPN Sydney Swimming. Retrieved on 2007-07-22.
  2. ^ 2004 Olympic Games swimming results. Retrieved on 2007-07-22.
  3. ^ 2002 World Championships - Short Course Swim Rankings results. Retrieved on 2007-07-24.
  4. ^ 5th FINA World Swimming Championships. Retrieved on 2007-07-24.
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