Malia Metella

Malia Metella
Malia Metella
Personal information
Full name Malia Metella
Nationality  France
Born 23 February 1982 (1982-02-23) (age 29)
Cayenne, French Guiana, France
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Stroke(s) freestyle

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.

Malia Metella (in lane 4) at the French Swimming Championships, Montpellier, 24 April 2009

Achievements

  • 2001: SC European Championships
  • 21st 50 m freestyle (25.89)
  • 21st 100 m butterfly (1:01.91)
  • 2003: SC European Championships
  • 1st 100 m freestyle (53.15)
  • 3rd 50 m freestyle (24.54)
  • 4th 100 m butterfly (58.42)
  • 2004: LC European Championships
  • 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)
  • 2nd 50 m freestyle (24.89)
  • 4th 100 m freestyle (54.50)
  • 5th 4×100 m free relay (3:40.23)
  • 2004: SC European Championships
  • 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

  1. ^ "2004 Olympic Games swimming results". CNN. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/2004/schedules/117BySport.html. Retrieved 2007-07-22. 
  2. ^ "Montreal 2005 Results". http://www.fina.org/events/WC/Montreal_2005/results/sw.php. Retrieved 2007-06-09. 
  3. ^ "Shanghai 2006 results". http://www.fina.org/events/SW/SWC(25m)/Shanghai_2006/results/index.php. Retrieved 2007-07-24. 
  4. ^ Metella's entry from www.sports-reference.com; retrieved 2011-08-02.
v · d · eEuropean Champions in Women's 100 m Freestyle

1927: Maria Vierdag (NED) • 1931: Yvonne Godard (FRA) • 1934: Willy den Ouden (NED) • 1938: Ragnhild Hveger (DEN) • 1947: Fritzie Nathansen (DEN) • 1950: Irma Schumacher (NED) • 1954: Katalin Szőke (HUN) • 1958: Kate Jobson (SWE) • 1962: Heidi Pechstein (GDR) • 1966: Martina Grunert (GDR) • 1970: Gabriele Wetzko (GDR) • 1974: Kornelia Ender (GDR) • 1977: Barbara Krause (GDR) • 1981: Caren Metschuck (GDR) • 1983: Birgit Meineke (GDR) • 1985: Heike Friedrich (GDR) • 1987: Kristin Otto (GDR) • 1989: Katrin Meißner (GDR) • 1991: Catherine Plewinski (FRA) • 1993: Franziska van Almsick (GER) • 1995: Franziska van Almsick (GER) • 1997: Sandra Völker (GER) • 1999: Sue Rolph (GBR) • 2000: Therese Alshammar (SWE) • 2002: Franziska van Almsick (GER) • 2004: Malia Metella (FRA) • 2006: Britta Steffen (GER) • 2008: Marleen Veldhuis (NED) • 2010: Francesca Halsall (GBR)
v · d · eEuropean Champions in Women's 4×100 m Freestyle Relay

1927: Great Britain (Laverty, Davies, King, Cooper) • 1931: Netherlands (Bouwmeester, Vierdag, Den Ouden, Braun) • 1934: Netherlands (Selbach, Timmermans, Mastenbroek, Den Ouden) • 1938: Denmark (Riise, Kraft, Ove-Petersen, Hveger) • 1947: Denmark (Svendsen, Harup, Andersen, Nathansen) • 1950: Netherlands (Masser, Termeulen, Linssen-Vaessen, Schuhmacher) • 1954: Hungary (Gyenge, Sebő, Temes, Szőke) • 1958: Netherlands (Schimmel, Lagerberg, Kraan, Gastelaars) • 1962: Netherlands (Gastelaars, Lasterie, Terpstra, Tigelaar) • 1966: Soviet Union (Sipchenko, Rudenko, Ustinova, Sosnova) • 1970: East Germany (Wetzko, Komar, Sehmisch, Schulze) • 1974: East Germany (Ender, Franke, Eife, Hübner) • 1977: East Germany (Treiber, Wächtler, Priemer, Krause) • 1981: East Germany (Meineke, Metschuck, Diers, Link) • 1983: East Germany (Otto, Link, Sirch, Meineke) • 1985: East Germany (Strauss, König, Stellmach, Friedrich) • 1987: East Germany (Stellmach, Friedrich, Otto, Meißner) • 1989: East Germany (Meißner, Stellmach, Hunger, Friedrich) • 1991: Netherlands (Van der Plaats, De Bruijn, Mastenbroek, Brienesse) • 1993: Germany (Van Almsick, Kielgass, Stellmach, Hunger) • 1995: Germany (Van Almsick, Osygus, Kielgass, Hunger) • 1997: Germany (Meißner, Osygus, Buschschulte, Völker) • 1999: Germany (Meißner, Buschschulte, Van Almsick, Völker) • 2000: Sweden (Jöhncke, Sjöberg, Kammerling, Alshammar) • 2002: Germany (Meißner, Dallmann, Völker, Van Almsick) • 2004: France (Figuès, Couderc, Mongel, Metella) • 2006: Germany (Dallmann, Götz, Steffen, Liebs) • 2008: Netherlands (Dekker, Kromowidjojo, Heemskerk, Veldhuis) • 2010: Germany (Samulski, Lippok, Vitting, Schreiber)
v · d · eEuropean Champions in Women's 4×100 m Medley Relay

1958: Netherlands (De Nijs, Den Haan, Voorbij, Gastelaars) • 1962: East Germany (Schmidt, Göbel, Noack, Pechstein) • 1966: Netherlands (Sikkens, G. Kok, A. Kok, Beumer) • 1970: East Germany (Hofmeister, Schuchardt, Lindner, Wetzko) • 1974: East Germany (Richter, Vogel, Kother, Ender) • 1977: East Germany (Richter, Nitschke, Pollack, Krause) • 1981: East Germany (Kleber, Geweniger, Geißler, Metschuck) • 1983: East Germany (Kleber, Geweniger, Geißler, Meineke) • 1985: East Germany (Weigang, Gerasch, Gressler, Friedrich) • 1987: East Germany (Otto, Hörner, Weigang, Stellmach) • 1989: East Germany (Otto, Bornike, Jacob, Meißner) • 1991: Soviet Union (Krupskaya, Roudkovskaya, Kononenko, Yermakova) • 1993: Germany (Völker, Gerasch, Ustrowski, Van Almsick) • 1995: Germany (Rund, Dörries, Voitowitch, Van Almsick) • 1997: Germany (Buschschulte, Gerasch, Meißner, Völker) • 1999: Sweden (Alshammar, Östling, Sjöberg, Svahnström) • 2000: Sweden (Alshammar, Igelström, Sjöberg, Jöhncke) • 2002: Germany (Buschschulte, Weiler, Van Almsick, Völker) • 2004: France (Manaudou, Thomassin, Mongel, Metella) • 2006: Great Britain (Marshall, Balfour, Dunning, Halsall) • 2008: Great Britain (Simmonds, Haywood, Lowe, Halsall) • 2010: Great Britain (Spofforth, Haywood, Halsall, Smith)
v · d · eEuropean Short Course Champions in Women's 100 m Freestyle

 1996: Sandra Völker (GER)  •  1998: Sue Rolph (GBR)  •  1999 – 2000: Therese Alshammar (SWE)  •  2001: Inge de Bruijn (NED)  •  2002: Martina Moravcová (SVK)  & Alena Popchanka (BLR) •  2003 – 2004: Malia Metella (FRA)  •  2005 – 2006: Marleen Veldhuis (NED)  •  2007: Britta Steffen (GER)  •  2008: Marleen Veldhuis (NED)  •  2009: Inge Dekker (NED)  •  2010: Ranomi Kromowidjojo (NED)
v · d · eMediterranean Champions in Women's 50 m Freestyle
1991: Sophie Kamoun (FRA) · 1993: Julie Blaise (FRA) · 1997: Rania Elwani (EGY) · 2001: Ana Belén Palomo (ESP) · 2005: Cristina Chiuso (ITA) · 2009: Malia Metella (FRA)
v · d · eMediterranean Champions in Women's 100 m Butterfly
1971: Donatella Talpo (ITA) · 1975: Cinzia Rampazzo (ITA) · 1979: Cinzia Savi Scarponi (ITA) · 1983: Cinzia Savi Scarponi (ITA) · 1987: Jacqueline Delord (FRA) · 1991: Cécile Jeanson (FRA) · 1993: Catherine Plewinski (FRA) · 1997: Ilaria Tocchini (ITA) · 2001: Malia Metella (FRA) · 2005: Ambra Migliori (ITA)


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