Mehdy Metella
 Metella in Kazan, Russia 2015 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| National team | France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 17 July 1992 Cayenne, French Guiana, France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 95 kg (209 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle, butterfly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Mehdy Metella (born 17 July 1992) is a French freestyle and butterfly swimmer.[1] He was part of the freestyle and medley 4 × 100 m teams that won a gold and a silver medal at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships and gold and bronze at the 2015 World Championship. In both cases, he swam the butterfly leg in the medley relay.
He also won multiple medals in the World and European Short Course swimming events.
He is the French record holder of the 100m butterfly long course, with a time of 51.06. In the French swimming championships in Rennes he broke his own national record in the 100 m butterfly with a time of 50s85’’.
Personal life
[edit]He is the younger brother of Malia Metella, an Olympic and World championship medallist.
References
[edit]- ^ Mehdy Metella. lequipe.fr
External links
[edit]- Mehdy Metella at World Aquatics
- Mehdy Metella at SwimRankings.net
- Mehdy Metella at Olympics.com
- Mehdy Metella at Olympedia
- Mehdy Metella at the French Olympic and Sports Committee (archived) (in French)
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Categories:
- 1992 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Cayenne
- French Guianan male swimmers
- French male freestyle swimmers
- French male butterfly swimmers
- Olympic swimmers for France
- Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
- Swimmers at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for France
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists in swimming
- European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Youth Olympic gold medalists for France
- Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- 21st-century French sportsmen