| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Olga Gnedovskaya |
| National team |  Uzbekistan |
| Born | 15 August 1989 Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union |
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) |
| Weight | 60 kg (132 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Backstroke |
Olga Gnedovskaya (Russian: Ольга Гнедовская; born August 15, 1989) is an Uzbekistani former swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events.[1] Gnedovskaya qualified for the women's 100 m backstroke, as Uzbekistan's youngest swimmer (aged 14), at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She cleared a FINA B-standard entry time of 1:05.42 from the Russian Championships in Moscow.[2] She challenged seven other swimmers in heat two, including Kazakhstan's Anastassiya Prilepa, who shared the same age with Gnedovskaya. She rounded out the field to last place in 1:15.33, nearly 10 seconds off her entry time. Gnedovskaya failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed forty-first overall in the preliminaries.[3][4]
After her competitive career, Gnedovskaya opened a youth swimming center in Tashkent.[5]
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- ^ "Born2Swim: как две спортсменки сделали бизнес на обучении младенцев плаванию и выросли до 4 филиалов за 3 года" [Born2Swim: How Two Athletes Made a Business Teaching Infants to Swim and Grew to 4 Branches in 3 Years]. spot.uz (in Russian). 9 November 2023.