Nataša Kejžar

Mathematician, Olympic athlete

1976 –

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Who is Nataša Kejžar?

Nataša Kejžar is an olympic swimmer, born October 14, 1976 in Jesenice, Slovenia, Yugoslavia. She studied at Faculty of Computer and Information Science, Ljubljana and achieved her PhD degree in Statistics in 2007. She is co-author with Douglas White, Constantino Tsallis, J. Doyne Farmer and Scott White of the Social-circles network model.

Coached by Ciril Globočnik, she started swimming in 1984, finished in 2000. She participated in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.

Best achievement: OG 2000: 16. 100m breaststroke; EC 25m 1998: 2. 100m IM.

In 2005 she appeared in the last episode of The Weakest Link on Slovenian national television, together with other well-known Slovenian sportsmen/-women and finished as the strongest link. The money was donated to Pediatric clinic in Ljubljana.

Her sister, Alenka Kejžar, appeared as a swimmer in three Olympics.

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Born
Oct 14, 1976
Jesenice
Also known as
  • Natasa Kejzar
Nationality
  • Slovenia
Profession

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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