Monika Babok

Monika Babok
Personal information
Full name	Monika Babok
National team	Croatia
Born	30 November 1991 (age 32); Zagreb, Socialist Republic of Croatia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	65 kg (143 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle, butterfly
Club	Plivački Klub Sisak JANAF
College team	Southern Methodist University (U.S.)
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing Croatia
European Junior Championships

Monika Babok (born November 30, 1991) is a Croatian swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events.^[1] She represented her nation Croatia at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has won a silver medal in the 50 m butterfly (27.48) at the 2007 European Junior Swimming Championships in Antwerp, Belgium.^[2] Babok was a member of the SMU Mustangs swimming and diving team, and a graduate of sports management at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

Babok competed for the Croatian swimming team in the women's 50 m freestyle, as Croatia's youngest swimmer (aged 16), at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She qualified for the Games with a 26.25 to eclipse the insurmountable FINA B-cut (26.32) by 0.07 of a second at the European Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands.^[3]^[4] Swimming as the fastest entrant in heat seven, Babok could not produce her pre-Olympic effort with 26.84 to accept the seventh spot in a splash-and-dash finish. Babok failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed forty-ninth overall out of 92 swimmers in the prelims.^[5]

References

^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Monika Babok". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 20 December 2012.
^ Rusticus, Oene (23 July 2007). "Lizzie Simmonds Tears Up Final Day of European Junior Championships". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 12 September 2012. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
^ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Women's 50m Freestyle" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 45. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
^ "2008 LEN European Aquatics Championships (Eindhoven, Netherlands) – Women's 50m Freestyle Semifinals" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
^ "Women's 50m Freestyle Heat 7". 2008 Summer Olympics. NBC Olympic broadcasts. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 20 December 2012.

External links

[1] Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Monika Babok". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 20 December 2012.

[2] Rusticus, Oene (23 July 2007). "Lizzie Simmonds Tears Up Final Day of European Junior Championships". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 12 September 2012. Retrieved 5 April 2013.

[3] "Olympic Cut Sheet – Women's 50m Freestyle" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 45. Retrieved 10 April 2013.

[4] "2008 LEN European Aquatics Championships (Eindhoven, Netherlands) – Women's 50m Freestyle Semifinals" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 11 February 2013.

[5] "Women's 50m Freestyle Heat 7". 2008 Summer Olympics. NBC Olympic broadcasts. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 20 December 2012.

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