Monika Babok

Monika Babok
Personal information
Full name Monika Babok
National team  Croatia
Born (1991-11-30) 30 November 1991
Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 65 kg (143 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle, butterfly
Club Plivački Klub Sisak JANAF
College team Southern Methodist University (U.S.)

Monika Babok (born November 30, 1991) is a Croatian swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events.[1] She represented her nation Croatia at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has won a silver medal in the 50 m butterfly (27.48) at the 2007 European Junior Swimming Championships in Antwerp, Belgium.[2] Babok was a member of the SMU Mustangs swimming and diving team, and a graduate of sports management at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

Babok competed for the Croatian swimming team in the women's 50 m freestyle, as Croatia's youngest swimmer (aged 16), at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She qualified for the Games with a 26.25 to eclipse the insurmountable FINA B-cut (26.32) by 0.07 of a second at the European Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands.[3][4] Swimming as the fastest entrant in heat seven, Babok could not produce her pre-Olympic effort with a disappointing 26.84 to accept the seventh spot in a splash-and-dash finish. Babok failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed forty-ninth overall out of 92 swimmers in the prelims.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill. "Monika Babok". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 20 December 2012.
  2. ↑ Rusticus, Oene (23 July 2007). "Lizzie Simmonds Tears Up Final Day of European Junior Championships". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 12 September 2012. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
  3. ↑ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Women's 50m Freestyle" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 45. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  4. ↑ "2008 LEN European Aquatics Championships (Eindhoven, Netherlands) – Women's 50m Freestyle Semifinals" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
  5. ↑ "Women's 50m Freestyle Heat 7". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 20 December 2012.
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