Smiljana Marinović (born 25 September 1977 in

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) is an Olympic and national-record holding

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from

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. She swam at the Olympics in

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

and

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. In July 2009, she set the Croatian Record in the long course 100 Breaststroke at 1:10.42.
Croatian Championships: Smiljana Marinovic, Mario Todorovic, Niksa Roki set Croatian marks
''. Published by ''

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'' on 2009-07-04; retrieved 2014-05-14. She also swam for Croatia internationally at the 2003 and 2005

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References

1977 births Living people Female breaststroke swimmers Croatian female swimmers Olympic swimmers for Croatia Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Swimmers from Split, Croatia 21st-century Croatian sportswomen {{Croatia-swimming-bio-stub