| Monika Babok | |
| Fullname: | Monika Babok |
| Strokes: | Freestyle, butterfly |
| Club: | Plivački Klub Sisak JANAF |
| Collegeteam: | Southern Methodist University (U.S.) |
| Birth Date: | 30 November 1991 |
| Birth Place: | Zagreb, Socialist Republic of Croatia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| Height: | 1.760NaN0 |
| Weight: | 650NaN0 |
Monika Babok (born November 30, 1991) is a Croatian swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events.[1] She represented her nation Croatia at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has won a silver medal in the 50 m butterfly (27.48) at the 2007 European Junior Swimming Championships in Antwerp, Belgium.[2] Babok was a member of the SMU Mustangs swimming and diving team, and a graduate of sports management at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
Babok competed for the Croatian swimming team in the women's 50 m freestyle, as Croatia's youngest swimmer (aged 16), at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She qualified for the Games with a 26.25 to eclipse the insurmountable FINA B-cut (26.32) by 0.07 of a second at the European Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands.[3] [4] Swimming as the fastest entrant in heat seven, Babok could not produce her pre-Olympic effort with 26.84 to accept the seventh spot in a splash-and-dash finish. Babok failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed forty-ninth overall out of 92 swimmers in the prelims.[5]