Elina Partõka

{{short description|Estonian swimmer}}

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| strokes = Freestyle

| club = NRK Kohtla-Järve

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1983|8|2|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR,
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Elina Partõka (born 2 August 1983) is an Estonian former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.{{cite sports-reference|title = Elina Partõka|url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pa/elina-partoka-1.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200418024104/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pa/elina-partoka-1.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = 18 April 2020|access-date = 27 November 2012}} She is a three-time Olympian (2000, 2004, and 2008), and a daughter of Valentin Partyka, who competed in both 200 and 400 m individual medley at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, representing the Soviet Union.

Partoka made her first Estonian team, as a 17-year-old swimming teen at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. There, she failed to reach the semifinals in any of her individual events, finishing twenty-ninth in the 100 m freestyle (57.71), and thirty-first in the 200 m freestyle (2:05.90).{{cite web|title=Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 200m Freestyle Heat 3 |url=http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2000/Masters/sw/SWresults.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110819181023/http://la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2000/Masters/sw/SWresults.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=19 August 2011 |work=Sydney 2000 |publisher=LA84 Foundation |page=183 |accessdate=3 March 2013 }}{{cite web|title=Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 100m Freestyle Heat 2 |url=http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2000/Masters/sw/SWresults.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110819181023/http://la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2000/Masters/sw/SWresults.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=19 August 2011 |work=Sydney 2000 |publisher=LA84 Foundation |page=174 |accessdate=3 March 2013 }}

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Partõka competed only in the 200 m freestyle. Swimming in heat three, she edged out New Zealand's Alison Fitch to earn a fourth spot and twenty-eighth overall by four hundredths of a second (0.04) in 2:03.54.{{cite web|title=Women's 200m Freestyle Heat 3|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics_2004/swimming/results/3531352.stm|work=Athens 2004|publisher=BBC Sport|date=16 August 2004|accessdate=31 January 2013}}{{cite news|last=Thomas |first=Stephen |title=Women's 200 Freestyle, Prelims Day 3: Dana Vollmer Stakes Her Claim as Fastest Qualifier, Benko Also Through to Evening Round |url=http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/7832.asp |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130630093238/http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/7832.asp |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 June 2013 |publisher=Swimming World Magazine |date=16 August 2004 |accessdate=26 April 2013 }}

Partõka swam for the third time in the 200 m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She cleared a FINA B-standard entry time of 2:01.75 in the 200 m freestyle from the Slovak Open Championships in Bratislava.{{cite web|title=Olympic Cut Sheet – Women's 200m Freestyle|url=http://magazines.swimmingworld.com:9997/SPIPDF/080508olyscutsheet.pdf|page=52|publisher=Swimming World Magazine|accessdate=10 April 2013}} She won the second heat by two hundredths of a second (0.02) behind 17-year old Bulgarian swimmer Nina Rangelova, breaking an Estonian record time of 2:00.64. Partõka repeated her luck from Athens, as she shared a twenty-eighth place tie with Brazil's Monique Ferreira in the preliminaries.{{cite web|title=Women's 200m Freestyle Heat 2 |url=http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/swimming/resultsandschedules/rsc=SWW012900/index.html |work=Beijing 2008 |publisher=NBC Olympics |accessdate=27 November 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120821002106/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/swimming/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DSWW012900/index.html |archivedate=21 August 2012 }}

She posed nude for Estonian edition of Playboy in April 2009.{{cite web|title=Aprillikuu Playboy kaanestaar on ujuja Elina Partõka 2|url=http://elu24.postimees.ee/97852/aprillikuu-playboy-kaanestaar-on-ujuja-elina-partoka|accessdate=20 January 2016}}