Yekaterina Rudenko

Who is Yekaterina Rudenko?

Yekaterina Olegovna Rudenko is a Kazakhstani swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events. She is a finalist in the girls' 100 m backstroke at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore.

Rudenko made her official debut, as Kazakhstan's youngest swimmer at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed in the women's 100 m backstroke by eclipsing an Olympic B-cut of 1:03.84 from the Kazakhstan Open Championships in Almaty. Rudenko rounded out the field to last place and forty-fifth overall in heat 2 by 0.23 of a second behind South Korea's Kim Yu-Yeon in 1:04.85.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Rudenko qualified again for the women's 100 m backstroke, by lowering her FINA B-standard entry time to 1:02.60 from the same tournament. She challenged seven other swimmers on the same heat as Beijing, including three-time Olympians Anja Čarman of Slovenia and Sanja Jovanović of Croatia. She faded to seventh place by 0.09 of a second behind Hungary's Eszter Povázsay in 1:03.64. Rudenko failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed thirty-eighth overall in the preliminaries.

Rudenko is currently training for the Drury Panthers women's swimming and diving team under head coach Brian Reynolds, while taking up undergraduate studies at Drury University in Springfield, Missouri.