Daria Sergeevna Klepikova was born on 11 February 2005 and is a Russian competitive swimmer.
10 Facts About Daria Klepikova
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Daria Klepikova competes for the Voronezh Oblast region in Russian competitions.
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When Daria Klepikova was 14 years old, she competed at the 2019 European Junior Swimming Championships, held in July in Daria Klepikova's home-country of Russia, where she placed fifth in the final of the 50 metre freestyle with a time of 25.56 seconds, finished sixth in the final of the 50 metre butterfly in 27.29 seconds, and placed sixteenth in the preliminaries of the 100 metre butterfly with a time of 1:01.35.
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The fifth day, 10 July, Daria Klepikova won her second gold medal in an individual event in the 50 metre butterfly where she won the event in a Championships record time of 26.14 seconds, which broke the former record of 26.21 seconds set in 2019 by Naele Portecop of France.
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In late November, Daria Klepikova was announced to the roster for Russia at the 2021 World Short Course Championships to be held at Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates in mid-December.
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The finals relay, which did not include Daria Klepikova, went on to place sixth.
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In March 2022, at 17 years of age, Daria Klepikova was banned from all LEN competitions indefinitely, rending her incapable of defending her European junior titles in the 50 metre butterfly and 100 metre freestyle from 2021 and denying her the chance to make her debut at a LEN European Aquatics Championships at least past the 2022 European Aquatics Championships.
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Later in the year, at the second part of the 2022 Russian Solidarity Games, with swimming contested in short course metres in November, 17-year-old Daria Klepikova won the bronze medal in the 50 metre butterfly with a personal best time of 25.69 seconds.
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Daria Klepikova won a silver medal in the 100 metre butterfly with a personal best time of 57.43 seconds, which was 1.13 seconds behind gold medalist and fellow Russian Arina Surkova, who set a new Russian record in the event.
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In March 2023, World Aquatics announced a change in competition regulations allowing female swimmers to compete as junior swimmers through the year they are 18 years of age on 31 December, meaning female swimmers such as Daria Klepikova became age-eligible to compete as juniors through the end of 2023, where they had not previously been age-eligible as the age cut-off was 17 years of age.