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Natalia Trefilova

swimmer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ6968091 ↗
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Natalia Trefilova (also Nataliya), born 1 July 1971, is a former freestyle swimmer from the Soviet Union.

Natalia competed at the 1988 Summer Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea, in the 100, 200, 400, & 800 metre freestyles, & the 4 x 100 metre freestyle relay.

Her effort in the 100 metre freestyle saw her finish first in the B Final in a time of 56.48 seconds.

In the 200 metre freestyle, Natalia achieved her best individual result of the meet, finishing fifth in the Championship Final in 1 minute 59.24 seconds.

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“Natalia Trefilova” enters the record as swimmer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Natalia, Trefilova and swimmer can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1971, 1988—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1971-07-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Natalia, Trefilova and swimmer.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6968091. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1971 and 1988.

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This entry incorporates text from “Natalia Trefilova” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.