Nika Godun was born on 4 March 1997 and is a Russian competitive swimmer.
12 Facts About Nika Godun
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In September 2016, at the 2016 Swimming World Cup stop in Moscow, Nika Godun started competition on the first of two days with the prelims heats of the 100 metre breaststroke, where she placed 11th overall with a time of 1:11.05.
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Nika Godun placed tenth with a time of 31.60 seconds in the semifinals of the 50 metre breaststroke.
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Day three of competition, Nika Godun ranked fourth in the prelims heats of the 100 metre breaststroke with a 1:05.41 and qualified for the semifinals later in the day.
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At the second stop of the 2021 Swimming World Cup, held at Danube Arena in Budapest, Hungary in October, Nika Godun won a bronze medal in the 100 metre individual medley with a personal best time of 59.71 seconds on the first day of competition, which was less than one-tenth of a second slower than silver medalist Michelle Coleman of Sweden.
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The second day of competition, Nika Godun won the gold medal in the 100 metre breaststroke with a 1:04.71 and finished over six-tenths of a second ahead of the silver medalist in the event, Lydia Jacoby of the United States.
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Nika Godun returned to the World Cup circuit at the fourth and final stop, held at the Palace of Water Sports in Kazan, where she competed in the 50 metre breaststroke and won the gold medal with a time of 29.64 seconds to finish 0.01 seconds ahead of the silver medalist and fellow Russian Yuliya Yefimova.
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In November 2021, at the 2021 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Kazan, Nika Godun placed fourth in her first event, the 100 metre breaststroke, with a time of 1:04.67 that was less than half a second slower than bronze medalist in the event, Eneli Jefimova of Estonia.
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Nika Godun's times achieved between 21 April and 31 December 2022 at various non-FINA competitions did not count for FINA world rankings or world records, same as the times achieved by her fellow Russians.
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Nika Godun competed at the long course metres swimming portion of the 2022 Russian Solidarity Games in July, a multi-sport and multi-country competition broken into two parts, winning the silver medal in the 100 metre breaststroke with a 1:06.81.
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Nika Godun placed sixth in the final on day two with a time of 31.36 seconds.
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The sixth and final day, Nika Godun started with a 2:33.88 in the preliminaries of the 200 metre breaststroke, qualifying for the evening final ranking seventh.