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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Saida Iskandarova |
| National team |  Uzbekistan |
| Born | 12 March 1980 Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union |
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) |
| Weight | 63 kg (139 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Freestyle, backstroke |
Saida Iskandarova (Uzbek: Саида Искандарова; born March 12, 1980) is an Uzbek former swimmer who specialized in backstroke, but also competed in sprint freestyle.[1] She is a two-time Olympian (2000 and 2004), and currently the head coach for the Uzbekistan National Swimming Team.[2][3]
Iskandarova made her Olympic debut, as Uzbekistan's first ever female swimmer, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she competed in the women's 50 m freestyle. Swimming in heat four, she picked up a sixth seed and fifty-fifth overall by 0.23 of a second behind Moldova's Maria Tregubova in 27.75.[4]
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Iskandarova qualified for the 200 m backstroke by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 2:19.98 from the Belarus Open Championships in Minsk.[5] She participated in the first heat, against two other swimmers Gretchen Gotay of Puerto Rico, and Sherry Tsai of Hong Kong. She rounded out a small field of three to last place by a 6.24-second margin behind winner Tsai, outside her entry time of 2:26.17. Iskandarova failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed thirty-second overall in the preliminaries.[6][7]