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Cristina Chiuso Personal information Nationality Italy Born December 25, 1973
San Donà di Piave, Venice, ItalySport Sport Swimming Stroke(s) Freestyle Medal recordEuropean LC Championships Silver 2000 Helsinki 4×100 m freestyle Silver 2008 Eindhoven 4×100 m freestyle European Championships (SC) Silver 2005 Trieste 50 m freestyle Summer Universiade Silver 1999 Mallorca 50 m freestyle Mediterranean Games Gold 2005 Almería 50 m freestyle Bronze 2005 Almería 100 m freestyle Cristina Chiuso is a former italian swimmer.
Italian record holder of 50 freestyle and 4x100 freestyle relay in short and long course, was captain of Italian women swimming team.
She has participated four times at the Olympic Games (Barcelona 1992, Sydney 2000, Athens 2004, Beijing 2008) and 5 times at the Swimming world championships (Fukouka 2001, Barcelona 2003, Montreal 2005, Melbourne 2007, Rome 2009). She has won two silver medals at the Swimming European Championships with the 4x100 freestyle relay team (2000 Helsinki and Eindhoven 2008), a silver medal at the European short course swimming championship in (Trieste 2005), one gold, three silver and two bronze medals at the Mediterranean Games and a total of 41 individual gold medals at the Italian Swimming Campionships.
Cristina announced his retirement in october 2009 after the world swimming championship in Rome.
Now she is a sport marketing manager and a TV commentator for Sky Sport.
See also
- Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 4 x 100 metre freestyle relay
- Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 4 x 200 metre freestyle relay
- Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 50 metre freestyle
- Italy at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Italy at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Italy at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- European Short Course Swimming Championships 2005
- 2000 European Aquatics Championships
- European Short Course Swimming Championships 2006
References
- Cristina Chiuso on agendadiana.com
- Cristina Chiuso on Italian Swimming Federation's website (Italian)
- Cristina Chiuso on nuotopedia.eu (Italian)
Mediterranean 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)Categories:- 1973 births
- Living people
- People from San Donà di Piave
- Italian swimmers
- Olympic swimmers of Italy
- Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Italian swimming biography stubs
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