coach club birth_place weight height birth_date article_title strokes name
aleš poljak pk olimpija velenje , sr slovenia , yugoslavia 65 kg lb 0 on 1.76 0 on 26 may 1985 nina sovinek
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nina sovinek

nina sovinek -lrb- born may 26 , 1985 in velenje -rrb- is a slovenian swimmer , who specialized in sprint freestyle events .
she is a member of the slovenian olympic swimming club -lrb- -rrb- and is coached and trained by aleš poljak .
sovinek qualified for two swimming events at the 2008 summer olympics in beijing , by clearing fina b-standard entry times of 26.27 -lrb- 50 m freestyle -rrb- from slovenia open in ljubljana and 56.11 -lrb- 100 m freestyle -rrb- from the european championships in eindhoven , netherlands .
in the 100 m freestyle , sovinek challenged seven other swimmers on the third heat , including returning olympians anna stylianou of cyprus , and chang hee-jin of south korea .
she rounded out the field to last place and forty-fourth overall by less than 0.14 of a second behind greece 's eleni kosti in a time of 57.30 seconds .
in her second event , 50 m freestyle , sovinek touched out hong kong 's elaine chan to take the fourth spot on the seventh heat by 0.05 of a second , with a time of 26.54 seconds .
sovinek failed to advance into the semifinals , as she placed forty-fourth out of 92 swimmers in the preliminaries .
