Khadija Ciss

Khadija Ciss
Personal information
Full name Khadija Ciss
National team  Senegal
Born (1983-03-26) 26 March 1983
Dakar, Senegal
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 61 kg (134 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle

Khadija Ciss (born March 26, 1983) is a Senegalese former swimmer, who specialized in long-distance freestyle events.[1] She won a bronze medal in the 200 m freestyle at the 2003 All-Africa Games in Abuja, Nigeria (2:09.00).[2]

Ciss qualified for two swimming events at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by achieving FINA B-standard entry times of 2:05.51 (200 m freestyle) and 9:02.54 (800 m freestyle) from the EDF Swimming Open in Paris.[3][4] In the 200 m freestyle, Ciss challenged five other swimmers on the second heat, including two-time Olympian Vesna Stojanovska of Macedonia. She rounded out the field to last place and fortieth overall by a 4.42-second margin behind winner Jana Myšková of the Czech Republic in 2:09.04.[5][6] In her second event, 800 m freestyle, Ciss ended her Olympic run in twenty-ninth place with a slowest time of 9:20.06.[7][8]

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