Đurđica Bjedov, born on 5 April 1947, is a retired Croatian swimmer and the only Yugoslav Olympic champion in swimming. At the 1968 Olympics she won the 100 metre breaststroke, breaking the Olympic record, and finished second in the 200 metre breaststroke; her medley relay team was disqualified in the preliminaries after she jumped into the water too early. She was named Yugoslav Athlete of the Year that year. After retiring she worked as a swimming coach and raised her daughter Anamarija Petričević to become an Olympic swimmer, and the two live in Locarno, Switzerland. She is the only Yugoslav swimmer inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
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is a retired Croatian swimmer
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born 5 April 1947
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she finished first in the 100 m breaststroke, breaking the Olympic record, and second in the 200 m breaststroke
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except for the 1968 Olympics, where she finished first in the 100 m breaststroke
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