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Born | Tallinn, Estonia | 18 February 1937||||||||||||||
Height | 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 62 kg (137 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||
Club | Dünamo Tallinn | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Ulvi Indrikson (née Voog; born 18 February 1937) is an Estonian former freestyle swimmer who won a silver medal in the 4×100 m medley relay at the 1958 European Aquatics Championships.[1] She also competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in the 100 m and 4×100 m freestyle and finished eighth in the 4×100 m relay.[2] During her career she won 11 national (USSR) titles: in the 100 m freestyle (1955–58, 60), 400 m freestyle (1956–60) and 4×100 m freestyle (1958), and set 10 national records.[3]
Voog graduated from the University of Tartu. She started training in swimming in 1952 and after retirement in 1967 worked as a swimming coach for Dünamo Tallinn (1967–92) and the Soviet swimming team (1977). Around 1960 she changed her name to Indrikson.[3] She is a grandmother of Estonian swimmers Triin, Martti and Berit Aljand.[2] In 1957 she was chosen as the Estonian Sportspersonality of the year.[3]