| Lára Hrund Bjargardóttir | |
| Fullname: | Lára Hrund Bjargardóttir |
| Strokes: | Freestyle, medley |
| Club: | Sundfélagið Húnar |
| Collegeteam: | University of California, Irvine (U.S.) |
| Birth Date: | 15 July 1981 |
| Birth Place: | Reykjavík, Iceland |
| Height: | 1.670NaN0 |
| Weight: | 580NaN0 |
| Show-Medals: | yes |
Lára Hrund Bjargardóttir (born 15 July 1981) is an Icelandic former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and individual medley events.[1] She is a multiple-time Big West Conference honoree, four-time Icelandic record holder, and a member of the swimming team for the UC Irvine Anteaters at the University of California, Irvine.[2] [3]
Bjargardottir made her first Icelandic team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. There, she failed to advance into the semifinals in any of her individual events, finishing twenty-seventh in the 200 m freestyle (2:05.22), and thirty-sixth in the 100 m freestyle (58.44).[4] [5]
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Bjargardottir shortened her program on her second Olympic appearance, swimming only in the 200 m individual medley. She achieved a FINA B-standard of 2:20.35 from the World Championships in Barcelona, Spain.[6] [7] Bjargardottir challenged five other swimmers in heat one, including two-time Olympians Marina Mulyayeva of Kazakhstan and Vered Borochovski of Israel. She raced to fourth place by 0.62 of a second behind 16-year-old swimmer Park Na-Ri of South Korea with a time of 2:22.00. Bjargardottir failed to qualify for the semifinals, as she placed twenty-seventh overall for the second time in the preliminaries.[8] [9]