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Alena Popchanka (born July 28 1979 in Gomel Belarus) is a 4-time Olympic freestyle and butterfly swimmer originally from Belarus. She swam for Belarus at the 1996 2000 and 2004 Olympics. At the 2008 Olympics she swam for France; after her marriage to Frenchman Frédéric Vergnoux in early 2005.Popchanka won the 200 m freestyle at the 2003 World Championships and won the 200 m freestyle again at the 2006 Short Course European Championships.