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Place of Birth: Andorra la Vella, Andorra
About Meritxell Sabate
- Meritxell Sabate González (born September 8, 1980) is an Andorran former swimmer, who specialized in long-distance freestyle and individual medley events.
- She represented Andorra in two editions of the Olympic Games (1996 and 2000), and also held numerous national records in long-distance freestyle (both 400 and 800 m) and medley double (both 200 and 400 m). Sabate made her first Andorran team, as a 16-year-old teen, at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
- She failed to reach the top 16 final in the 200 m individual medley, finishing in forty-second place at 2:37.38.At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Sabate swam only in the 200 m individual medley.
- She established an Andorran record and a FINA B-cut of 2:23.24 from the Mare Nostrum Meet in Barcelona, Spain.
- She participated in heat one against three other swimmers Marina Mulyayeva of Kazakhstan, Alexandra Zertsalova of Kyrgyzstan, and Fernanda Cuadra of Nicaragua.
- Entering the race with the fastest-seeded time, Sabate faded down the stretch to touch the wall with a third-place time of 2:30.41, but missed a chance to lower her own national record by 7.17 seconds.
- Sabate failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed thirty-fifth overall in the prelims.
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