Irina Shlemova (; born 3 March 1984) is an Uzbekistani former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. She is a two-time Olympian (2004 and 2008) and a member of Oltin Suv Swimming Club, under the tutelage of her personal coach Daniya Galandinova. Shlemova made her first Uzbek team at the

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, where she competed in the women's 100 m freestyle. Swimming in heat two, she picked up a sixth seed and forty-fifth overall by three hundredths of a second (0.030 behind Chinese Taipei's Sung Yi-chieh in 59.21. At the

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, Shlemova qualified for the second time in the women's 100 m freestyle. She cleared a FINA B-standard entry time of 57.13 (100 m freestyle) from the Russian Championships in

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. Shlemova challenged five other swimmers on the same heat as Athens, including 15-year-old

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of Singapore, and fellow two-time Olympian

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of Chinese Taipei. She rounded out the field to last place by more than a second behind Nieh in 58.77 seconds. Shlemova failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed forty-sixth overall in the prelims.

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