Yana Klochkova
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| Olympic medal record | |||
| Women's swimming | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | Sydney 2000 | 200 m individual medley | |
| Gold | Sydney 2000 | 400 m individual medley | |
| Gold | Athens 2004 | 200 m individual medley | |
| Gold | Athens 2004 | 400 m individual medley | |
| Silver | Sydney 2000 | 800 m freestyle | |
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, and currently holds both the short-course and long-course world records in the 400 meter individual medley. 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
- 2000, Sydney: 200 m medley
- 2000, Sydney: 400 m medley
- 2004, Athens: 200 m medley
- 2004, Athens: 400 m medley
[edit] World Champion, Long Course
- 2001, Fukuoka: 400 m freestyle
- 2001, Fukuoka: 400 m medley
- 2003, Barcelona: 200 m medley
- 2003, Barcelona: 400 m medley
[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] See also
| 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 |
| 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 |
Categories: 1982 births | Living people | Ukrainian swimmers | Olympic competitors for Ukraine | Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics | Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics | Olympic gold medalists for Ukraine | Olympic silver medalists for Ukraine | Swimming World World Swimmers of the Year | World record holders in swimming
