Alenka Kejžar is an Olympic

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 class swimmer. She was born February 15, 1979 in Kranj

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' is the third largest municipality and fourth largest city in Slovenia, with a population of 54,500 . It is located approximately 20 km north-west of Ljubljana...

, Slovenia

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. Kejžar attended Southern Methodist University

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 in Dallas, Texas

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. She was a Golden Key

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 member.

Her coaches were Ciril Globočnik and Steve Collins

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. Her swimming career began in 1987, and ended in 2004. She participated in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996 Summer Olympics

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 in Atlanta. She has won medals in World Championships, World Cups and European Championships.

Kejžar has been working as a swimming teacher for New International School of Thailand in Bangkok since 2005. Her sister, Nataša Kejžar

Nataša Kejžar

Nataša Kejžar is an olympic swimmer, born October 14, 1976 in Jesenice, Slovenia, Yugoslavia. She studied at Faculty of Computer and Information Science, Ljubljana and achieved her PhD degree in Statistics in 2007. She is...

, is also a former Olympic swimmer.