- Natalia Hadjiloizou
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Medal record Competitor for Belarus Women’s swimming World Championships - Short Course Bronze 2000 Athens[1] 200 m freestyle European Championships (LC) Bronze Istanbul 1999 200 m freestyle Gold Helsinki 2000 200 m freestyle Silver Helsinki 2000 400 m freestyle European Championships (SC) Silver 1999 Lisbon 400 m freestyle Bronze 1999 Lisbon 200 m freestyle Natalia Hadjiloizou (Greek: Ναταλία Χατζηλοΐζου; born 23 March 1979 in Vitebsk, Belarus as Natalya Baranovskaya; Belarusian: Наталля Бараноўская; Russian: Наталья Барановская) is a professional Cypriot swimmer, who made her Olympic debut at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta for Belarus.
Hadjiloizou also competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney for Belarus, where she placed 6th in the 200 m freestyle and did not advance out of the preliminary heats in the 400 m freestyle.
After deciding to retire aged 22 in 2001, she moved to Cyprus where she married her coach Giorgios, and later competed for Cyprus at the 2008 Summer Olympics where she ranked 45th in the 100 metre butterfly event.[2]
References
- ^ "5th FINA World Swimming Championships". Archived from the original on 18 December 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20071218160948/http://www.fina.org/events/WC/Fukuoka_2001/site/wldswimchamps00_results.html. Retrieved 24 July 2007.
- ^ "Κυπριακή Συμμετοχή" (in Greek). CyBC. http://www.cybc.com.cy/olympics-beijing2008/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=87. Retrieved 5 October 2010.
European Champions in Women's 200 m Freestyle 1970: Gabriele Wetzko (GDR) • 1974: Kornelia Ender (GDR) • 1977: Petra Thümer (GDR) • 1981: Carmela Schmidt (GDR) • 1983: Birgit Meineke (GDR) • 1985: Heike Friedrich (GDR) • 1987: Heike Friedrich (GDR) • 1989: Manuela Stellmach (GDR) • 1991: Mette Jacobsen (DEN) • 1993: Franziska van Almsick (GER) • 1995: Kerstin Kielgass (GER) • 1997: Michelle Smith (IRL) • 1999: Camelia Potec (ROM) • 2000: Natalya Baranovskaya (BLR) • 2002: Franziska van Almsick (GER) • 2004: Camelia Potec (ROM) • 2006: Otylia Jędrzejczak (POL) • 2008: Sara Isakovič (SLO) • 2010: Federica Pellegrini (ITA)
Categories:- 1979 births
- Living people
- People from Vitebsk
- Belarusian swimmers
- Cypriot swimmers
- Freestyle swimmers
- Butterfly swimmers
- Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic swimmers of Belarus
- Olympic swimmers of Cyprus
- European swimming biography stubs
- Belarusian sportspeople stubs
- Cypriot sportspeople stubs
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