Career
Sovinek qualified for two swimming events at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by clearing FINA B-standard entry times of 26.27 (50 m freestyle) from Slovenia Open in Ljubljana and 56.11 (100 m freestyle) from the European Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands. In the 100 m freestyle, Sovinek challenged seven other swimmers on the third heat, including returning Olympians Anna Stylianou of Cyprus, and Chang Hee-Jin of South of Korea. She rounded out the field to last place and forty-fourth overall by less than 0.14 of a second behind Greece"s Eleni Kosti in a time of 57.30 seconds.
In her second event, 50 m freestyle, Sovinek touched out Hong Kong"s Elaine Chan to take the fourth spot on the seventh heat by 0.05 of a second, with a time of 26.54 seconds.
Sovinek failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed forty-fourth out of 92 swimmers in the preliminaries.
