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Place of Birth: Thessaloniki, Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
About Martha Matsa
- Martha Matsa (Greek: ????a ??tsa; born April 5, 1987) is a Greek swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.
- She is a two-time Olympian (2004 and 2008), and a member of the swimming team for HAN Thessaloniki. When her nation Greece hosted the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Matsa made her Olympic debut as a 17-year-old, competing in two swimming events.
- She posted a FINA B-standard of 25.61 (50 m freestyle) from an Olympic test event at the Athens Olympic Aquatic Centre.
- On the first day of the Games, Matsa teamed up with Nery Mantey Niangkouara, Eleni Kosti, and Zoi Dimoschaki in the 4 Ă— 100 m freestyle relay.
- She held liable for an early relay takeoff, when the Greeks had been disqualified from the heats.
- Nearly a week later, in the 50 m freestyle, Matsa placed thirty-third on the morning prelims.
- Swimming in heat seven, she edged out Trinidad and Tobago's Sharntelle McLean to pick up a seventh spot by four-tenths of a second (0.40) in 26.46.On 2 June 2005, Martha Matsa tested positive to the substance Stanozolol (Class S.1 Anabolic Agents) following a doping control test.
- This was part of the Hellenic unannounced out-of-competition testing programme.
- Subsequent to that the Disciplinary Board of the Hellenic Swimming Federation imposed a sanction of two (2) years’ suspension on Ms.
- Matsa.Matsa swam only in the 50 m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
- She achieved a FINA B-standard of 25.67 from the Greece National Open Championships in Tripoli.
- She challenged seven other swimmers in heat nine, including Slovakia's top favorite and five-time Olympian Martina Moravcová.
- She raced again to seventh place in 25.68, just a slimmest margin off her entry time, and 0.03 of a second behind Ukraine's Oksana Serikova.
- Matsa failed to advance into the semifinals, as she matched her overall position from Athens in the prelims.Matsa was also selected as a reserve for the Greek squad at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, but did not compete in the 4 Ă— 100 m freestyle relay.
- Her Greek teammates Niangkouara, Theodora Drakou, Theodora Giareni, and teen sensation Kristel Vourna failed to reach the top 8 final, finishing only in sixteenth place with a time of 3:45.55.
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