Katarína Filová

Who is Katarína Filová?

Katarína Filová is a Slovak swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. She is a multiple-time Slovak freestyle relay record holder, and a two-time 2013 Atlantic Coast Conference team champion. Filova is also a resident athlete for J&T Sport Team Bratislava, and is coached and trained by Gabriel Baran.

Filova qualified for two swimming events at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, by eclipsing FINA B-standard entry times of 55.66 and 2:01.02 from the Grand Prix Slovakia in her home city Bratislava. In the 200 m freestyle, Filova challenged seven other swimmers on the second heat, including former Olympic champion Camelia Potec of Romania. Swimming in lane eight, Filova edged out Austria's Jördis Steinegger to pick up a sixth spot and twenty-eighth overall by 0.36 of a second in 2:02.03. In her second event, 100 m freestyle, Filova pulled off another sixth-place finish in heat four by a quarter of a second behind Olympic breaststroke champion Rūta Meilutytė of Lithuania in 56.58. Filova failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed thirty-first overall out of 48 swimmers in the preliminaries.