Marianna Lymperta


Marianna Lymperta is an Olympic and national-record holding swimmer from Greece. She has won the bronze medal at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships, at the [Open water swimming at the Greece at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships|2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 10 km|Open Water Swimming Women's 10 km event]. She has also won the bronze medal at the 2010 European Aquatics Championships, at the Open Water Swimming Women's 5 km event.
She has swum for Greece at the:
  • Olympics: 2000, 2004, [Greece at the Greece at the 2008 Summer Olympics|2008 Summer Olympics|2008], 2012
  • World Championships: 2003, 2009, 2011, 2013
  • European Championships: 2010
  • Mediterranean Games: 2001, 2005, 2013
  • Open Water Worlds: 2008, 2010
At the 2010 European Championships, she set the Greek Records in the women's 800 and 1500 free.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the Women's marathon 10 kilometre, finishing in last place.
She was named the Greek Female Athlete of the Year for 2011.