Annamária Kiss

The native form of this personal name is Kiss Annamária. This article uses the Western name order.
Annamária Kiss
Personal information
Full name Annamária Kiss
National team  Hungary
Born (1981-12-05) 5 December 1981
Dunaújváros, Hungary
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight 55 kg (121 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Backstroke
Club Dunaferr SE
Coach Erzsébet Tóth

Annamária Kiss (born December 5, 1981 in Dunaújváros) is a Hungarian former swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events.[1] She represented Hungary in two editions of the Olympic Games (1996 and 2000), and also trained for Dunaferr Sports Club (Hungarian: Dunaferr Sportegyesület) under her longtime coach and mentor Erzsébet Tóth.

Kiss made her first Hungarian team, as a 14-year-old teen, at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. There, she failed to reach the top 16 final in the 100 m backstroke, finishing only in thirty-second place at 1:07.38.[2]

At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Kiss competed only in three swimming events, including a backstroke double. She achieved FINA B-standards of 1:05.16 (100 m backstroke) and 2:17.08 (200 m backstroke) from the Hungarian Championships in Budapest.[3][4] On the second day of the Games, Kiss placed thirty-sixth in the 100 m backstroke. Swimming in heat two, she came up with a spectacular swim on the final stretch to race for the fourth seed in 1:06.12, just 1.13 seconds off the leading time set by Sweden's Camilla Johansson.[5][6] Four days later, in the 200 m backstroke, Kiss posted a time of 2:20.40 to grab a sixth seed from the same heat, but finished only in twenty-eighth overall on the morning prelims.[7][8] Kiss also teamed up with Ágnes Kovács, Gyöngyver Lakos, and newcomer Orsolya Ferenczy in the 4 × 100 m medley relay. Leading off a backstroke leg in heat one, Kiss recorded a split of 1:06.15, but the Hungarians raced to the fifth spot and thirteenth overall in a final time of 4:11.11.[9][10][11]

References

  1. ↑ "Annamária Kiss". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
  2. ↑ "Atlanta 1996: Aquatics (Swimming) – Women's 100m Backstroke Heat 1" (PDF). Atlanta 1996. LA84 Foundation. p. 42. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
  3. ↑ "Swimming – Women's 100m Backstroke Startlist (Heat 2)" (PDF). Sydney 2000. Omega Timing. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
  4. ↑ "Swimming – Women's 200m Backstroke Startlist (Heat 2)" (PDF). Sydney 2000. Omega Timing. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
  5. ↑ "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 100m Backstroke Heat 2" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 287. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
  6. ↑ "Dolan breaks own world mark in 400 IM". Canoe.ca. 17 September 2000. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
  7. ↑ "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 200m Backstroke Heat 2" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 299. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
  8. ↑ "Results from the Summer Olympics – Swimming (Women's 200m Backstroke)". Canoe.ca. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
  9. ↑ "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 4×100m Medley Heat 1" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 363. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
  10. ↑ "Results from the Summer Olympics – Swimming (Women's 4×100m Medley Relay)". Canoe.ca. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
  11. ↑ "Sydney 2000: Swimming Results (September 22, 2000)". Sydney 2000. ESPN. Retrieved 14 June 2013.

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