Irina Aksyonova

Irina Aksyonova

Personal information
Born	(1962-09-24) 24 September 1962
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	62 kg (137 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Club	Lokomotiv St. Petersburg
Medal record Representing  Soviet Union Olympic Games 1980 Moscow 4×100 m medley World Championships 1978 Berlin 4×100 m medley

Irina Anatolyevna Aksyonova (also Aksenova, Russian: Ирина Анатольевна Аксёнова; born 24 September 1962) is a retired Russian swimmer. She won bronze medals in the 4 × 100 m medley relay at the 1978 World Aquatics Championships^[1] and 1980 Summer Olympics, where she swam for the Soviet Union team in the preliminaries. At the 1980 Olympics she also finished fourth in the 800 m, fifth in the 400 m and eighth in the 200 m freestyle events.^[2]

Between 1977 and 1980 she won seven national titles and set five national records in 200–800 m freestyle events.^[3] However, when her medley relay team finished third at the 1978 World Championships, she was swimming the 100 m butterfly leg.^[4] Currently she lives in Czech Republic.^[3]

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