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Place of Birth: Pietà, Malta
About Angela Galea
- Angela Galea (born May 5, 1983) is a Maltese former swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events.
- She is a two-time Olympian (2000 and 2004), a three-time champion at the Games of the Small States of Europe (GSSE), and a multiple-time Maltese record holder in both freestyle and butterfly (50, 100, and 200 m).
- In preparation for her Games, she was trained for the Italian Olympic team, under the guidance of head coach Maurizio Cocconi.Galea made her first Maltese team, as a 17-year-old teen, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
- Swimming in heat one of the women's 100 m butterfly, she posted a Maltese record of 1:07.88 to pick up a second seed and forty-sixth overall against Swaziland's Lisa de la Motte and Micronesia's Tracy Ann Route.At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Galea qualified again for the 100 m butterfly by receiving a Universality place from FINA.
- She lowered a Maltese record and posted her entry time of 1:03.62 from GSSE in Valletta, held a year before the Olympics.
- She participated in the same heat as Sydney against five other swimmers, including 16-year-old Kateryna Zubkova of Ukraine.
- Despite of good recovery in the last 50 metres, Galea came up short in fourth place with a time of 1:05.47, just a 3.25-second margin behind winner Zubkova.
- Galea failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed thirty-sixth overall on the first day of preliminaries.
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