Daria Konstantinovna Ustinova (; born 29 August 1998) is a Russian

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. She is a former Junior World record holder in women's 200 m backstroke.

Career

At the 2013 European Junior Championships Ustinova won 5 golds (100 m backstroke, 4 × 100 m mixed medley, 4 × 100 m medley, 50 m backstroke and 4 × 100 m freestyle). At the 2013 World Junior Championships she won gold in 4 × 100 m medley, 100 m backstroke, 4x100 mixed medley, silver in 50 m backstroke and bronze in 200 m backstroke. Ustinova (together with Svetlana Chimrova,

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and

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) won gold in 4x50 m medley at the 2013 European Short Course Championships but was later disqualified due to Yefimova's positive test for

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, a prescription

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banned in professional sports. Ustinova herself was the subject of a reprimand from Russian authorities after abnormalities occurred in a doping test when she was 14 years old. In light of her youth, no further sanction was made at the time. In 2014, Ustinova won 6 golds at the 2014 European Junior Championships. She won a bronze medal in the individual 200 m at the

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and a bronze in the medley relay at the

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, Qatar. In 2–9 August, Ustinova competed at the 2015 World Championships in

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. She reached the semifinals in women's 50 m backstroke and qualified for the finals in women's 200 m backstroke; Ustinova finished in 4th place behind

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and set a new

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in a time of 2:07.64. Ustinova then competed in the FINA Swimming World Cup series in

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, taking the gold medal in 200 m and bronze in 50 m backstroke. At the FINA World Cup in

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, Ustinova won the gold medal in women's 200 m backstroke. Ustinova finished 4th in 100 m backstroke behind American

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and 7th in 50 m backstroke. On 25 July 2016, Ustinova was named by FINA as an athlete who had been identified by WADA as one that had benefited from the "disappearing positive methodology", and as such FINA declared her ineligible for the

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in accordance with the requirements issued by the International Olympic Committee the previous day. No further information was released as to possible further punishments for this second doping offence. However, Ustinova appealed to the

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, which on 6 August allowed her to take part in the Olympics.

References

External links

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Daria K Ustinova Sports bio
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ustinova, Daria 1998 births Living people Russian female backstroke swimmers Olympic swimmers for Russia Russian female freestyle swimmers Swimmers from Yekaterinburg Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Military World Games silver medalists for Russia Military World Games medalists in swimming 21st-century Russian sportswomen