Olga Detenyuk

Who is Olga Detenyuk?

Olga Igoryevna Detenyuk is a Russian swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events. Detenyuk set a games record of 2:25.19 to claim the 200 m breaststroke title at the 2008 FINA Youth World Swimming Championships in Monterrey, Mexico. She also won a silver medal, as a member of the Russian team, in the girls' 4×100 m medley relay at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore.

Detenyuk qualified for the women's 200 m breaststroke, as Russia's youngest swimmer, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by clearing a FINA A-standard entry time of 2:26.15 from the Russian Championships in Moscow. She challenged seven other swimmers on the fourth heat, including defending Olympic champion Amanda Beard of the United States. She finished the race in seventh spot by 0.17 of a second behind Beard in 2:27.87. Detenyuk missed the semifinals by a six tenth margin, as she shared a twentieth-place tie with Great Britain's Kirsty Balfour in the preliminary heats.