Annamária Kiss (born 5 December 1981) is a Hungarian former swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events. She represented

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in two editions of the

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(1996 and 2000), and also trained for Dunaferr Sports Club ( hu, 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 The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...

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. There, she failed to reach the top 16 final in the

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, finishing only in thirty-second place at 1:07.38. At the

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, 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

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. On the second day of the Games, Kiss placed thirty-sixth in the

. 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. 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. Kiss also teamed up with

Ágnes Kovács Ágnes Kovács (born 13 July 1981) is a Hungarian swimmer who competed at the Hungary at the 1996 Summer Olympics, 1996, Hungary at the 2000 Summer Olympics, 2000 and Hungary at the 2004 Summer Olympics, 2004 Olympics. In Swimming at the 2000 ...

, 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.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kiss, Annamaria 1981 births Living people Hungarian female swimmers Olympic swimmers for Hungary Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Hungarian female backstroke swimmers Sportspeople from Dunaújváros