Mariya Bugakova, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Olympic swimmer
Date of Birth: 06-Jul-1985
Place of Birth: Tashkent
Profession: swimmer
Nationality: Uzbekistan
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Mariya Bugakova
- Mariya Bugakova (Uzbek: ????? ????????; born July 6, 1985) is an Uzbek former swimmer, who specialized in butterfly and sprint freestyle events.
- She represented Uzbekistan at three editions of the Olympic Games (2000, 2004, and 2008).
- She is also the elder sister of backstroke swimmer and two-time Olympian Danil Bugakov.
- Bugakova is a law school graduate at the Tashkent State University of Economics.Bugakova started her swimming career at the very young age, and came from a sporting family, in which her parents were both trained in the pool as "working reserves" (Trudovie rezervi).
- At the age of fourteen, she first competed at the Asian Age Group Championships in Hong Kong, where she became a junior champion in the butterfly category.
- A year later, Bugakova made her Olympic debut, as one of Uzbekistan's youngest swimmers, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
- Bugakova competed in the 100 m butterfly, where she finished last in the second heat, and forty-eight overall by six tenths of a second (0.60) behind Zambia's Ellen Lendra Hight, with a time of 1:09.94.
- At the 2004 Summer Olympics, Bugakova edged out Saint Lucia's Natasha Sara Georgeos by less than 0.14 of a second in heat two of the 100 m butterfly, lowering her time to 1:07.08.At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Bugakova decided to drop her specialty event, the 100 m butterfly, and experiment with the 50 m freestyle.
- She achieved a FINA B-standard of 26.29 from the Russian Swimming Championships in Saint Petersburg.
- She challenged seven other swimmers in heat seven, including fellow three-time Olympian Marina Mulyayeva of Kazakhstan.
- Bugakova rounded out the field to last place by three seconds behind Croatia's Monika Babok with a time of 29.73 seconds.
- Bugakova failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed sixty-eighth out of 92 swimmers in the preliminary heats.
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