Alexandra Zertsalova (; born January 18, 1982) is a Kyrgyz former swimmer, who specialized in individual medley events. Zertsalova competed in a medley double at the

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. She achieved

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B-standards of 2:23.30 (200 m individual medley) and 4:59.24 (400 m individual medley) from the Russian Open Championships in

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. On the first day of the Games, Zertsalova placed twenty-seventh in the 400 m individual medley. Swimming in heat one, she raced to the third seed by more than ten seconds behind Argentina's Georgina Bardach and Slovakia's Jana Korbasová in 5:09.03. Two days later, in the 200 m individual medley, Zertsalova posted a second-place time of 2:24.09 in the same heat, but finished in thirty-second place among 36 other swimmers from the prelims.

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* 1982 births Living people Kyrgyzstani female medley swimmers Olympic swimmers for Kyrgyzstan Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Swimmers from Bishkek Kyrgyzstani people of Russian descent {{Kyrgyzstan-swimming-bio-stub