Ragnheiður Ragnarsdóttir
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Ragnheiður Ragnarsdóttir |
| National team |
 Iceland |
| Born |
24 October 1984 Reykjavík, Iceland |
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) |
| Weight | 74 kg (163 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Freestyle |
| Club | Mission Viejo Nadadores (U.S.) |
Ragnheiður Ragnarsdóttir (born October 24, 1984) is an Icelandic former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.[1] She is a multiple-time Icelandic record holder in both long and short course freestyle (both 50 and 100).
Ragnarsdóttir made her Olympic debut, as Iceland's youngest swimmer (aged 19), at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She qualified for two swimming events by attaining B-standard entry times of 26.34 (50 m freestyle) and 56.74 (100 m freestyle).[2][3] In the 100 m freestyle, Ragnarsdóttir finished dead-last in heat three and fortieth overall with a time of 58.47 seconds.[4][5] In the 50 m freestyle, Ragnarsdóttir almost snared out of triumph in heat five by a hundredth of a second (0.01) behind Luxembourg's Lara Heinz, finishing second and thirty-first overall in 26.36 seconds.[6][7]
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Ragnarsdóttir qualified for the second time in the same swimming program as the previous Games. She cleared FINA B-cuts of 25.95 (50 m freestyle) from the Dutch Open Swim Cup in Eindhoven and 56.06 (100 m freestyle) from FINA World Championships in Melbourne.[8][9][10] In the 100 m freestyle, she was reassigned in heat three against seven other swimmers, including Hong Kong's Hannah Wilson and Bahamas' Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace. She touched out Cyprus' Anna Stylianou to take the fifth spot and thirty-fifth overall by three hundredths of a second (0.03), in a time of 56.35 seconds.[11] In the 50 m freestyle, Ragnarsdóttir finished fourth in heat eight by 0.13 of a second behind Jamaica's Natasha Moodie, clocking at 25.82. Ragnarsdóttir failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed thirty-sixth out of 92 swimmers in the evening prelims.[12]
References
- ↑ "Ragnheiður Ragnarsdóttir". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 18 December 2012.
- ↑ "Swimming – Women's 50m Freestyle Startlist (Heat 6)" (PDF). Athens 2004. Omega Timing. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
- ↑ "Swimming – Women's 100m Freestyle Startlist (Heat 3)" (PDF). Athens 2004. Omega Timing. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
- ↑ "Women's 100m Freestyle Heat 3". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 18 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
- ↑ Thomas, Stephen (18 August 2004). "Women's 100 Freestyle Prelims, Day 5: Inky Leads the Pack with a Swift 54.43". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 14 April 2013.
- ↑ "Women's 50m Freestyle Heat 5". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 19 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
- ↑ Thomas, Stephen (18 August 2004). "Women's 50 Freestyle, Prelims Day 7: Inky Sizzles in World Best 24.66, Joyce Next in PR 25.06, Jenny Thompson Makes It Too". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
- ↑ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Women's 50m Freestyle" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 45. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
- ↑ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Women's 100m Freestyle" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 48. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
- ↑ "Aftur met hjá Ragnheiði i Eindhoven" [Ragnheiður meets again in Eindhoven] (in Icelandic). KR Vefurinn. 8 December 2007. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
- ↑ "Women's 100m Freestyle Heat 3". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 18 December 2012.
- ↑ "Women's 50m Freestyle Heat 8". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 18 December 2012.