Maria Tregubova

{{Short description|Moldovan swimmer (born 1984)}}

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| club = Olimpia Chişinău

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| birth_place = Chişinău, Moldavian SSR,
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Maria Tregubova (born July 17, 1984) is a Moldovan former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.{{cite sports-reference|title = Maria Tregubova|url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/tr/maria-tregubov-1.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200418025034/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/tr/maria-tregubov-1.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = 18 April 2020|access-date = 28 April 2013}} She is a two-time Olympian (2000 and 2004) and a member of the swimming team for Olimpia Chişinău.

Tregubova made her Olympic debut, as Moldova's youngest swimmer (aged 16), at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she competed in the women's 50 m freestyle. Swimming in heat four, she edged out Uzbekistan's Saida Iskandarova to pick up a fifth seed and fifty-fourth overall by 0.23 of a second in 27.75.{{cite web|title=Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 50m Freestyle Heat 4 |url=http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2000/Masters/sw/SWresults.pdf |work=Sydney 2000 |publisher=LA84 Foundation |page=165 |accessdate=19 April 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110819181023/http://la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2000/Masters/sw/SWresults.pdf |archivedate=19 August 2011 }}

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Tregubova qualified again for the 50 m freestyle by eclipsing a FINA B-cut of 26.90 from the Russian Open Championships in Moscow.{{cite web|title=Swimming – Women's 50m Freestyle Startlist (Heat 4)|url=http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000104060049000000FFFFFFFFFFFF00|format=PDF|work=Athens 2004|publisher=Omega Timing|accessdate=19 April 2013}} Swimming in the same heat as Sydney, she picked up a second spot over Aruba's Roshendra Vrolijk by 0.03 of a second, outside her entry time of 28.40. Tregubova failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed forty-eighth overall out of 75 swimmers on the last day of preliminaries.{{cite web|title=Women's 50m Freestyle Heat 4|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics_2004/swimming/results/3535060.stm|work=Athens 2004|publisher=BBC Sport|date=20 August 2004|accessdate=31 January 2013}}{{cite news|last=Thomas |first=Stephen |title=Women's 50 Freestyle, Prelims Day 7: Inky Sizzles in World Best 24.66, Joyce Next in PR 25.06, Jenny Thompson Makes It Too |url=http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/7915.asp |publisher=Swimming World Magazine |date=20 August 2004 |accessdate=19 April 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204111631/http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/7915.asp |archivedate=4 February 2012 }}