Monika Babok
Monika Babok is a Croatian swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events. She represented her nation Croatia at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has won a silver medal in the 50 m butterfly at the 2007 European Junior Swimming Championships in Antwerp, Belgium. Babok was a member of the SMU Mustangs swimming and diving team, and a graduate of sports management at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
Babok competed for the Croatian swimming team in the women's 50 m freestyle, as Croatia's youngest swimmer, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She qualified for the Games with a 26.25 to eclipse the insurmountable FINA B-cut by 0.07 of a second at the European Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Swimming as the fastest entrant in heat seven, Babok could not produce her pre-Olympic effort with a disappointing 26.84 to accept the seventh spot in a splash-and-dash finish. Babok failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed forty-ninth overall out of 92 swimmers in the prelims.
