| Inna Kapishina | |
| Fullname: | Inna Vitalievna Kapishina |
| Strokes: | Breaststroke |
| Club: | Dynamo Hrodna |
| Birth Date: | 30 December 1984 |
| Birth Place: | Babruysk, Belarusian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Height: | 1.70NaN0 |
| Weight: | 560NaN0 |
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Inna Vitalievna Kapishina (Belarusian: Іна Вітальеўна Капішына; born December 30, 1984) is a Belarusian former swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.[1] She is a multiple-time Belarusian champion and three-time national record holder in her respective discipline (50, 100, and 200 m).
Kapishina made her Olympic debut at the 2004 Athens Olympics, competing in a breaststroke double. In the 100 m breaststroke, she won the second heat by approximately two seconds ahead of Cuba's Imaday Nuñez Gonzalez in 1:10.66. Her storming victory in the heats missed out a spot in the semifinals, as she finished eighteenth overall by a third of a second (0.33) outside the top-16 field.[2] [3] In her second event, 200 m breaststroke, Kapishina secured a penultimate seed to round out the semifinal roster with a prelims time of 2:31.26, but was eventually disqualified for not following the proper form.[4] [5]
Four years later, Kapishina qualified for her second Belarusian team, as a 23-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She cleared FINA B-standard entry times of 1:09.16 (100 m breaststroke) and 2:31.02 (200 m breaststroke) from the FINA World Championships in Melbourne, Australia.[6] [7] In the 100 m breaststroke, Kapishina challenged seven other swimmers on the fourth heat, including two-time Olympian Diana Gomes of Portugal. She edged out Turkey's Dilara Buse Günaydın to take the fourth spot by three tenths of a second (0.30) in 1:10.15.[8] Kapishina also won the third heat of the 200 m breaststroke, but missed the semifinals by six hundredths of a second (0.06), in a personal best of 2:27.34.[9]