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Irina Shlemova (Russian: Ирина Шлемова; born 3 March 1984) is an Uzbekistani former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.[1] She is a two-time Olympian (2004 and 2008) and a member of Oltin Suv Swimming Club, under the tutelage of her personal coach Daniya Galandinova.
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Irina Shlemova |
| National team |  Uzbekistan |
| Born | 3 March 1984 Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union |
| Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in) |
| Weight | 53 kg (117 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Freestyle |
| Club | Oltin Suv |
| Coach | Daniya Galandinova |
Shlemova made her first Uzbek team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where she competed in the women's 100 m freestyle. Swimming in heat two, she picked up a sixth seed and forty-fifth overall by three hundredths of a second (0.030 behind Chinese Taipei's Sung Yi-chieh in 59.21.[2][3]
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Shlemova qualified for the second time in the women's 100 m freestyle. She cleared a FINA B-standard entry time of 57.13 (100 m freestyle) from the Russian Championships in Saint Petersburg.[4] Shlemova challenged five other swimmers on the same heat as Athens, including 15-year-old Quah Ting Wen of Singapore, and fellow two-time Olympian Nieh Pin-chieh of Chinese Taipei. She rounded out the field to last place by more than a second behind Nieh in 58.77 seconds. Shlemova failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed forty-sixth overall in the prelims.[5]
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