Mariam Pauline Keita, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Mariam Pauline Keita

Olympic swimmer

Date of Birth: 02-Sep-1983

Place of Birth: Bamako, Mali

Profession: swimmer

Nationality: Mali

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Mariam Pauline Keita

  • Mariam Pauline Keita (born September 2, 1983 in Bamako) is a three-time Olympic swimmer from Mali, specialized in breaststroke events.
  • She made her first Malian team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, and competed for the women's 100 m breaststroke.
  • At age seventeen, Keita won the first heat of the event, where two of her swimmers were disqualified for a false start and for violating the technical rules of the sport, recording the slowest possible time in the prelims at 1:37.80.
  • On her second Olympic appearance in Athens 2004, Keita swam swiftly and improved her personal best in the 100 m breaststroke event.
  • She finished the same heat in sixth place and forty-sixth overall, with a time of 1:30.40, just seven seconds ahead of her mark from the previous Games.For her third and final Olympics in Beijing, Keita swam in the women's breaststroke events, with fair results.
  • She finished last in the first heat of the women's 100 m breaststroke event, against Asmahan Farhat of Libya, and Anna Salnikova of Georgia, with a time of 1:24.26.
  • Although she had achieved her personal best, Keita, however, failed to advance into the semi-final rounds, as she placed forty-sixth in the overall rankings.

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