Malia Metella

Personal information

Full name

Malia Metella

Nationality

France

Born

23 February 1982
Cayenne, French Guiana, France

Height

1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)

Sport

Swimming

Strokes

Butterfly, freestyle

Medal record

Olympic Games
	2004 Athens^[1]	50 m freestyle
World Championships (LC)
	2005 Montreal^[2]	100 m freestyle
World Championships (SC)
	2006 Shanghai^[3]	100 m freestyle
European Championships (LC)
	2004 Madrid	100 m freestyle
	2004 Madrid	4×100 freestyle
	2004 Madrid	4×100 medley
	2004 Madrid	100 m butterfly
	2006 Budapest	4×100 m freestyle
European Championships (SC)
	2003 Dublin	100 m freestyle
	2004 Vienna	100 m freestyle
	2003 Dublin	50 m freestyle
	2004 Vienna	100 m butterfly
	2007 Debrecen	4×50 m medley
Mediterranean Games
	2001 Tunis	100 m butterfly
	2009 Pescara	50 m freestyle
	2009 Pescara	4×100 m 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.

Her younger brother Mehdy Metella is also a world-class swimmer.

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)

2004: Olympic Games

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

↑ "2004 Olympic Games swimming results". CNN. Retrieved 2007-07-22.
↑ "Montreal 2005 Results". Retrieved 2007-06-09.
↑ "Shanghai 2006 results". Retrieved 2007-07-24.
↑ Metella's entry from www.sports-reference.com; retrieved 2011-08-02.

European 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: Fritze 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)
2012: Sarah Sjöström (SWE)
2014: Sarah Sjöström (SWE)

European champions in women's 4×100 m freestyle relay

1927: Great Britain (Laverty, Davies, King, Cooper)
1931: Netherlands (Baumeister, 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 (Massaar, Termeulen, Linssen-Vaessen, Heijting-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)
2012: Germany (Steffen, Lippok, Vitting, Schreiber)
2014: Sweden (Coleman, Kuras, Hansson, Sjöström)

European 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, Börnike, 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)
2012: Germany (Mensing, Poewe, Wenk, Steffen)
2014: Denmark (Nielsen, Pedersen, Ottesen, Blume)

European 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) and 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)
2011: Britta Steffen (GER)
2012: Veronika Popova (RUS)
2013: Ranomi Kromowidjojo (NED)
2015: Sarah Sjöström (SWE)

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) 2013: Anna Santamans (FRA)

Mediterranean 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) 2009: Francesca Segat (ITA)

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