Hanna-Maria Hintsa (née Seppälä born 13 December 1984) is a retired Finnish freestyle swimmer, who won the world title in the 100 m freestyle at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona, Spain.
Hintsa started swimming at age five and made the Finnish national junior team by age 10. In 1999 she won the bronze medal in the European Junior Championships in the 50 m freestyle event. To date she has broken 100 Finnish national records. Hintsa's manager was the now-defunct SportElite company.
Hintsa met her partner first time in 2010. They have been married since January 2018.
Hintsa told in 2020 that she will start medical studies in Riika.
In autumn 2020 Hintsa started studies to become a doctor. She started studies in Latvia.
Since then has moved her studies by apply to Italy.
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Hanna-Maria Seppälä's records and achievements at the Wayback Machine (archived 4 October 2009)
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Hanna-Maria Seppälä at World Aquatics
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