Petra Zahrl
Personal information
Full namePetra Zahrl
National team Austria
Born (1981-04-04) 4 April 1981 (age 43)
Vienna, Austria
Height1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight60 kg (132 lb)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesFreestyle, butterfly
ClubSC Donau
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing Austria
European Championships (SC)
Bronze medal – third place 2000 Valencia 200 m butterfly

Petra Zahrl (born April 4, 1981) is an Austrian former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events.[1] Since 2009, she currently holds four Austrian records in the freestyle and medley relays. She also claimed a bronze medal in the 200 m butterfly (2:09.29) at the 2000 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Valencia, Spain.

Zahrl made her first Austrian team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she competed in the women's 200 m butterfly. Swimming in heat two, she picked up a third spot and twenty-third overall by seven tenths of a second (0.70) behind Macedonia's Mirjana Boševska in 2:13.29.[2]

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Zahrl qualified again for the 200 m butterfly by eclipsing a FINA A-cut of 2:10.50 from the European Championships in Madrid.[3][4] She challenged seven other swimmers on the same heat as Sydney, including top medal favorite Éva Risztov of Hungary. She edged out 15-year-old Kwon You-Ri of South Korea to take a seventh spot by 0.38 of a second in 2:13.92. Zahrl failed to advance into the semifinals, as she managed to repeat a twenty-third-place finish from Sydney in the preliminaries.[5][6]

References

  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Petra Zahrl". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
  2. ^ "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 200m Butterfly Heat 2" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 232. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 August 2011. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
  3. ^ "Swimming – Women's 200m Butterfly Startlist (Heat 2)" (PDF). Athens 2004. Omega Timing. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
  4. ^ "Österreichs Bilanz bei der Schwimm-EM in Madrid: Rogan im Einzel am erfolgreichsten" [Austria's balance sheet at the European Swimming Championships in Madrid: Markus Rogan is the most successful] (in German). News.at. 21 April 2004. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
  5. ^ "Women's 200m Butterfly Heat 2". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 17 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  6. ^ Thomas, Stephen (17 August 2004). "Women's 200 Butterfly Prelims, Day 4: Jedrzejczak Fastest. Nakanishi, Risztov, Sandeno and Thomas All Qualify". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 3 December 2005. Retrieved 24 April 2013.


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