Yana Klochkova biography
Yana Klochkova, (born August 7, 1982, Simferopol, Ukraine, U.S.S.R.), Ukrainian swimmer who in 2004 grew to become the primary lady to win consecutive pairs of Olympic gold medals in the identical occasions—the 200-metre and 400-metre particular person medleys. Known because the “Medley Queen,” she misplaced just one medley race in worldwide competitors between 2000 and 2004.
Klochkova was born into an athletic household (each mother and father competed in monitor and subject) and took up swimming at age seven. She started competing internationally in her mid-teens and took silver within the 400-metre particular person medley on the world championships in early 1998. At the European championships the next yr, she gained each particular person medleys along with inserting third within the 400-metre freestyle occasion. At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney she broke a world document within the 400-metre medley (4 min 33.59 sec). She adopted up with an Olympic document within the 200-metre medley (2 min 10.68 sec) and concluded with a silver medal within the 800-metre freestyle (8 min 22.66 sec). Klochkova’s gold medals on the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens within the 200-metre (2 min 11.14 sec) and the 400-metre (4 min 34.83 sec) medleys matched her efficiency on the earlier Olympics. She didn't compete on the 2008 Games in Beijing, and the next yr she retired.