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Sara Isakovič Personal information Full name Sara Isakovič Nationality 
SloveniaBorn 9 June 1988
Bled, SR Slovenia, SloveniaHeight 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Weight 60 kilograms (130 lb) Sport Sport Swimming Stroke(s) Freestyle Club Plavalni Klub Radovljica College team University of California, Berkeley Medal recordWomen's swimming Competitor for SloveniaOlympic Games Silver 2008 Beijing 200 m freestyle European Championships (LC) Gold 2008 Eindhoven 200 m freestyle Mediterranean Games Silver 2005 Almería 200 m freestyle Silver 2005 Almería 400 m freestyle Sara Isakovič (born 9 June 1988 in Bled[1]) is a freestyle swimmer from Slovenia. She spent much of her childhood in Dubai. Isakovič was a member of the Žito Gorenjka Radovljica Swimming Club from Radovljica, Slovenia and trained under the supervision of coach Miha Potočnik.
Isakovič competed for Slovenia at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she won the silver medal in the women's 200 m freestyle. This was the first Olympic medal ever for Slovenia in swimming.
She is currently studying at the University of California, Berkeley and training with the Cal swimming team under the direction of coach Teri McKeever.
References
Slovenian Sportswoman of the Year Marijana Lubej (1968) · Nataša Urbančič (1969) · Nataša Urbančič (1970) · Nataša Urbančič (1971) · Nataša Urbančič (1972) · Nataša Urbančič (1973) · Nataša Urbančič (1974) · Mima Jaušovec (1975) · Mima Jaušovec (1976) · Mima Jaušovec (1977) · Ljuba Tkalčič (1978) · Breda Lorenci (1979) · Mima Jaušovec (1980) · Bojana Dornig (1981) · Andreja Leskovšek (1982) · Lidija Lapajne (1983) · Mateja Svet (1984) · Mateja Svet (1985) · Mateja Svet (1986) · Mateja Svet (1987) · Mateja Svet (1988) · Mateja Svet (1989) · Mateja Svet (1990) · Nataša Bokal (1991) · Marika Kardinar (1992) · Brigita Bukovec (1993) · Britta Bilač (1994) · Brigita Bukovec (1995) · Brigita Bukovec (1996) · Brigita Bukovec (1997) · Brigita Bukovec (1998) · Metka Šparovec (1999) · Špela Pretnar (2000) · Alenka Bikar (2001) · Jolanda Čeplak (2002) · Jolanda Čeplak (2003) · Jolanda Čeplak (2004) · Tina Maze (2005) · Petra Majdič (2006) · Petra Majdič (2007) · Sara Isakovič (2008) · Petra Majdič (2009) · Tina Maze (2010)
European Champions in Women's 200 m Freestyle 1970: Gabriele Wetzko (GDR) • 1974: Kornelia Ender (GDR) • 1977: Petra Thümer (GDR) • 1981: Carmela Schmidt (GDR) • 1983: Birgit Meineke (GDR) • 1985: Heike Friedrich (GDR) • 1987: Heike Friedrich (GDR) • 1989: Manuela Stellmach (GDR) • 1991: Mette Jacobsen (DEN) • 1993: Franziska van Almsick (GER) • 1995: Kerstin Kielgass (GER) • 1997: Michelle Smith (IRL) • 1999: Camelia Potec (ROM) • 2000: Natalya Baranovskaya (BLR) • 2002: Franziska van Almsick (GER) • 2004: Camelia Potec (ROM) • 2006: Otylia Jędrzejczak (POL) • 2008: Sara Isakovič (SLO) • 2010: Federica Pellegrini (ITA)
Summer Universiade Champions in Women's 200 m Freestyle 1979: Annelies Maas (NED) • 1981: Jill Sterkel (USA) • 1983: Irina Laricheva (URS) • 1985: Conny van Bentum (NED) • 1987: Noemi Lung (ROM) • 1991: Karen Kraemer (USA) • 1993: Heike Lünenschloss (GER) • 1995: Lisa Jacob (USA) • 1997: Martina Moravcová (SVK) • 1999: Kim Black (USA) • 2001: Camelia Potec (ROM) • 2003: Yana Klochkova (UKR) • 2005: Otylia Jędrzejczak (POL) • 2007: Federica Pellegrini (ITA) • 2009: Sara Isakovič (SLO) • 2011: Melania Costa Schmid (ESP)
Categories:- 1988 births
- Living people
- Slovenian swimmers
- Olympic swimmers of Slovenia
- Female freestyle swimmers
- Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for Slovenia
- University of California, Berkeley alumni
- Slovenian people of Serbian descent
- People from Bled
- Olympic medalists in swimming
- European swimming biography stubs
- Slovenian sportspeople stubs
- European Olympic medalist stubs
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