Marie-Lizza Toinette Danila (born September 17, 1982) is a Filipino former swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events. She represented the

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, as a 17-year-old, at the

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, and later collected a total of six silver medals in a backstroke double at the Southeast Asian Games (1999, 2001, and 2003) before her official retirement in 2005. She is also a top 8 finalist at the

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Career

Danila competed only in the women's 100 m backstroke at the

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. She achieved a FINA B-cut of 1:06.19 after winning a silver medal from the Southeast Asian Games in

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. Swimming in heat one, Danila, who just turned 18 on the second day of the Games, gave the Filipinos a further reason to celebrate, as she overhauled a 1:07 barrier and rocketed to a fantastic first-place finish in a sterling time of 1:06.48. Danila's blistering triumph was not worthy enough to put her through to the semifinals, as she placed thirty-seventh overall out of 47 swimmers in the prelims. At the

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, Danila defended her silver medals each in the 100 m backstroke (1:05.10) and in the 200 m backstroke (2:23.47), finishing behind Thailand's top favorite

Chonlathorn Vorathamrong Chonlathorn Vorathamrong ( th, ชลธร วรธำรง; born September 8, 1980) is a Thai former swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events. She is a two-time Olympian (2000 and 2004) and a six-time medalist at the Southeast Asian Game ...

by more than a full body length. Two years later, at the

, Danila failed to medal in any of her individual events, finishing ninth in the

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(1:06.44), and eighth in the 200 m backstroke (2:22.19).

References

1982 births Living people Filipino female swimmers Olympic swimmers of the Philippines Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2002 Asian Games Female backstroke swimmers People from San Pablo, Laguna Sportspeople from Laguna (province) SEA Games medalists in swimming SEA Games silver medalists for the Philippines Competitors at the 1999 Southeast Asian Games Competitors at the 2001 Southeast Asian Games Competitors at the 2003 Southeast Asian Games Asian Games competitors for the Philippines {{Philippines-swimming-bio-stub