Hanna-Maria Seppälä

Hanna-Maria Seppälä, who also appears under her married name Hanna-Maria Hintsa, is a retired Finnish freestyle swimmer born on 13 December 1984. She started swimming at the age of five and was on the Finnish national junior team by the age of ten. In 1999 she won a bronze medal in the 50 metre freestyle at the European Junior Championships, and she has broken 100 Finnish national records. Her best known result is the world title in the 100 metre freestyle at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona. After her sporting career she began medical studies, first in Riga and later in Italy, and she has been married since January 2018.