Monika Babok (born November 30, 1991) is a Croatian swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events. She represented her nation

Croatia Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herze ...

at the

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, and has won a silver medal in the 50 m butterfly (27.48) at the 2007 European Junior Swimming Championships in Antwerp, Belgium. Babok was a member of the

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swimming and diving team, and a graduate of sports management at the

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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

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

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. 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.

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Player Bio – SMU Mustangs
{{DEFAULTSORT:Babok, Monika 1991 births Living people Croatian female swimmers Olympic swimmers for Croatia Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Croatian female freestyle swimmers Croatian female butterfly swimmers Sportspeople from Sisak SMU Mustangs women's swimmers Expatriate swimmers in the United States 21st-century Croatian sportswomen Croatian expatriate sportspeople in the United States