Elín Sigurðardóttir: Difference between revisions

”’Elín Sigurðardóttir”’ (born 15 January 1973) is an Icelandic former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.<ref>{{cite sports-reference|title = Elín Sigurðardóttir|url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/si/elin-sigurdardottir-1.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200418025221/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/si/elin-sigurdardottir-1.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = 18 April 2020|access-date = 14 June 2013}}</ref> Sigurdardottir represented [[Iceland]] in two editions of the [[Olympic Games]] (1996 and 2000), and also formerly held an Icelandic record in the 50 m freestyle, before it was eventually broken by [[Ragnheiður Ragnarsdóttir]] and [[Sarah Blake Bateman]].

Sigurdardottir made her first Icelandic team at the [[1996 Summer Olympics]] in [[Atlanta]]. Swimming in heat three of the [[Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women’s 50 metre freestyle|women’s 50 m freestyle]], she raced to a sixth seed and thirty-seventh overall in 26.90, a third of a second behind leader [[Dominique Diezi]] of Switzerland.<ref>{{cite web|title=Atlanta 1996: Aquatics (Swimming) – Women’s 50m Freestyle Heat 3 |url=http://la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1996/1996v3p1.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110523164915/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1996/1996v3p1.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 May 2011 |format=[[PDF]] |work=[[1996 Summer Olympics|Atlanta 1996]] |publisher=[[LA84 Foundation]] |page=35 |accessdate=14 June 2013 }}</ref>

At the [[2000 Summer Olympics]] in [[Sydney]], Sigurdardottir competed again in the [[Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women’s 50 metre freestyle|50 m freestyle]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Íslendingar senda 11 keppendur til Sydneyļūst|trans-title=Icelanders send 11 competitors to Sydney|language=Icelandic|url=https://www.mbl.is/greinasafn/grein/546384/|publisher=[[Morgunblaðið]]|date=4 April 2000|accessdate=7 June 2013}}</ref> She achieved a [[FINA]] B-cut of 26.93 from the Mare Nostrum meet in [[Barcelona, Spain]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Swimming – Women’s 50m Freestyle Startlist (Heat 5)|url=http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=00010006002A000000FFFFFFFFFFFF00|format=[[PDF]]|work=[[2000 Summer Olympics|Sydney 2000]]|publisher=Omega Timing|accessdate=14 June 2013}}</ref> She challenged seven other swimmers in heat five, including teenagers [[Chiang Tzu-ying]] of Chinese Taipei, [[Marijana Šurković]] of Croatia, and [[Jūratė Ladavičiūtė]] of Lithuania. Diving in with a 0.79-second deficit, Sigurdardottir faded down the stretch on the final 15-metre mark to last place in 27.58, almost a full second behind leader Chiang. Sigurdardottir failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed fifty-first overall out of 74 swimmers in the prelims.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women’s 50m Freestyle Heat 5 |url=http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2000/Masters/sw/SWresults.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110819181023/http://la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2000/Masters/sw/SWresults.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=19 August 2011 |format=[[PDF]] |work=[[2000 Summer Olympics|Sydney 2000]] |publisher=[[LA84 Foundation]] |page=165 |accessdate=14 June 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Results from the Summer Olympics – Swimming (Women’s 50m Freestyle)|url=http://www.canoe.ca/2000GamesResults/sep22.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130615050120/http://www.canoe.ca/2000GamesResults/sep22.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=June 15, 2013|publisher=[[Canoe.ca]]|accessdate=14 June 2013}}</ref>