Nikoletta Kiss

Nikoletta Kiss (born 29 April 1997) is a Hungarian swimmer, specialising in open water events. She started open water swimming in 2014.[1]

Nikoletta Kiss
Personal information
NationalityHungarian
Born (1997-04-29) 29 April 1997
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesFreestyle, open water

At the 2011 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival, Kiss won the 800m Freestyle[2] and was second in the 200m freestyle[3] and the 400m Freestyle.[4] She also won bronze in the mixed 4×200m Freestyle Relay team event.[5]

A year later, she won the silver medal in the 800m freestyle at the 2012 European Junior Swimming Championships.[6] and at the 2013 European Junior Swimming Championships, took silver in the 400m freestyle and bronze in the 800 m freestyle.[7]

Kiss won the 7.5 km gold medal at the 2014 World Junior Open Water Swimming Championships, with a time of 1:32:42.27.[8] In 2016, she was runner-up in the 10km at the World Junior championships, overtaken by Alice Dearing in the final 50 metres as Dearing finished 0.5 seconds ahead in 2:04:24.1.[9]

References
  1. "Nikoletta Kiss". fina.org. Fédération internationale de natation. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
  2. Women's 800m Freestyle Results Archived 22 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Women's 200m Freestyle Results Archived 14 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  4. Women's 400m Freestyle Results Archived 28 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  5. Mixed's 4×200m Freestyle Relay Results Archived 28 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  6. "Full Results: European Junior Swimming Championships Antwerp, 4/ – 8/7/2012" (PDF). www2.len.eu. Ligue Européenne de Natation. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
  7. "Full Results: ARENA European Junior Swimming Championships Poznan, 10 – 14-7-13" (PDF). www2.len.eu. Ligue Européenne de Natation. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 December 2019. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
  8. "World Junior Open Water Swimming Championships 2014: Women 7.5 km final". fina.org. Fédération Internationale de Natation. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  9. "Alice Dearing claims gold at World Junior Open Water Champs". swimming.org. Swim England. 11 July 2016. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
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