Malia Metella
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 Metella in lane 4 at the French swimming championships | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Malia Metella | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 23 February 1982 Cayenne, French Guiana, France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Butterfly, freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Malia Metella (born 23 February 1982 in Cayenne, French Guiana)[4] is a French Olympic freestyle swimmer from French Guiana. She swam for France at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics, winning a silver medal in 2004 in the women's 50 free.
She won her first senior titles at the European Short Course Swimming Championships 2003 in Dublin, Ireland.
Her younger brother Mehdy Metella is also a world-class swimmer.
Achievements
[edit]- 21st 50 m freestyle (25.89)
- 21st 100 m butterfly (1:01.91)
- 1st 100 m freestyle (53.15)
- 3rd 50 m freestyle (24.54)
- 4th 100 m butterfly (58.42)
- 1st 100 m freestyle (54.46)
- 2nd 100 m butterfly (58.78)
- 1st 4×100 m freestyle relay (3:40.67)
- 1st 4×100 m medley relay (4:05.96)
- 2004: Olympic Games
- 2nd 50 m freestyle (24.89)
- 4th 100 m freestyle (54.50)
- 5th 4×100 m free relay (3:40.23)
- 1st 100 m freestyle (53.37)
- 3rd 100 m butterfly (58.47)
- 4th 50 m freestyle (24.71)
- 4th 4×50 m free relay (1:39.68)
- 5th 4×50 m medley relay (1:51.28)
References
[edit]- ^ "2004 Olympic Games swimming results". CNN. Archived from the original on 14 August 2004. Retrieved 22 July 2007.
- ^ "Montreal 2005 Results". Archived from the original on 28 January 2007. Retrieved 9 June 2007.
- ^ "Shanghai 2006 results". Archived from the original on 6 March 2007. Retrieved 24 July 2007.
- ^ Metella's entry from www.sports-reference.com; retrieved 2 August 2011.
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- 1982 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Cayenne
- French Guianan female swimmers
- Olympic swimmers for France
- Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- French female freestyle swimmers
- French female butterfly swimmers
- Olympic silver medalists for France
- French people of French Guianan descent
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists in swimming
- Mediterranean Games gold medalists for France
- Mediterranean Games silver medalists for France
- Swimmers at the 2001 Mediterranean Games
- Swimmers at the 2009 Mediterranean Games
- Mediterranean Games medalists in swimming
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