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Yuliya Yefimova

Yuliya Yefimova
Yulia Efimova MoscowTass 08-2016cr.jpg
Efimova in 2016
Personal information
Full name Yuliya Andreyevna Yefimova
National team  Russia
Born (1992-04-03) 3 April 1992 (age 25)
Grozny, Russia
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 64 kg (141 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Breaststroke
Club Volgodonsk Swim Club
Coach Dave Salo

Yuliya Andreyevna Yefimova (Russian: Юлия Андреевна Ефимова), also romanized Efimova; born 3 April 1992) is a Russian competitive swimmer. A three-time Olympian, she made her Olympic debut in 2008, before going on to win the bronze medal in the 200 metres breaststroke in 2012, and silver medals in the 100 metres and 200 metres breaststroke in 2016. In 2013, she failed a drug test and was suspended from competition for 16 months.

Yefimova is a four-time World Champion, winning the 50 metres breaststroke at the 2009 World Championships, the 50 metres and 200 metres breaststroke events in 2013, and the 100 metres breaststroke in 2015. She is a former world record holder in the 50 metres breaststroke.

Yefimova was born in Grozny, but due to the First Chechen War her family moved to Volgodonsk. There she took up swimming aged six, coached by her father Andrey Yefimov. Until 2011, she lived in Taganrog, where she trained under Irina Vyatchanina and studied at the Southern Federal University. In March that year, she moved to California, United States, where she is coached by Dave Salo, the head coach of the University of Southern California swimming team.


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