Olga Moltchanova

Moltchanova competed for Kyrgyzstan in a breaststroke double at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She achieved FINA B-standards of 1:13.26 (100 m breaststroke) and 2:37.31 (200 m breaststroke) from the Kazakhstan Open Championships in Almaty. On the second day of the Games, Moltchanova placed thirty-fourth in the 100 m breaststroke. Swimming in heat two, she faded down the stretch from third at the opening length to pick up a fourth seed in 1:14.41, more than a second below her entry standard. Three days later, in the 200 m breaststroke, Moltchanova posted a time of 2:41.43 in heat one, but finished farther from the top 16 field with a thirty-third place effort.

Moltchanova made her own swimming history at the 1998 European Championships (short course) in Sheffield, England, where she shared a seventh-place tie with Austria's Vera Lischka in the 100 m breaststroke (a matching time of 1:09.42).

Olga Moltchanova (Russian: Ольга Молчанова ; born February 4, 1979) is a Russian-born Kyrgyz former swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events. She became a top 8 finalist for Russia at the 1998 European Short Course Swimming Championships, and later switched nationalities to represent Kyrgyzstan at the 2000 Summer Olympics.