Alena Popchanka
Alena Popchanka 
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| Surname: | Alena Popchanka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Belarus (until 2005) France
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| Swimming style (s) : | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birthday: | July 28, 1979 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth: | Homel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Size: | 1.76 m | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alena Popchanka ( Belarusian Алена Попчанка , Russian Алёна Попчанка / Aljona Poptschanka, scientific transliteration Alëna Popčanka ; born July 28, 1979 in Homel ) is a Belarusian swimmer until 2005 and then a French swimmer .
Until 2002 she trained in Minsk. She then emigrated to France and initially stayed in the French city of Melun for a year , until she stayed in Clichy from 2003 and trained with Frédéricjoyoux . Since November 2005 she has been swimming for her new home in France.
In 2003, at the World Swimming Championships in Barcelona , she surprisingly became world champion in the 200 meter freestyle.
When she won the title in the 200 meter freestyle at the European Short Course Championships in Helsinki in 2006 , she set a new European record in 01: 54.25 minutes in this location .
Popchanka participated in both the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta , 2000 in Sydney , 2004 in Athens and 2008 in Beijing . In 2008 she set a new European record in the run-up to the French 4 × 200 meter freestyle relay in 07: 50.37 minutes .
Web links
- Alena Popchanka in the database of Swimrankings.net (English)
- Alena Popchanka in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
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| SURNAME | Popchanka, Alena |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Popchanka, Aljona; Popchenko, Jelena |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belarusian swimmer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 28, 1979 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gomel , Belarusian SSR |