Yip Tsz Wa, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Yip Tsz Wa

Olympic swimmer

Date of Birth: 22-Oct-1990

Place of Birth: Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China

Profession: swimmer

Nationality: China

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Yip Tsz Wa

  • Yvonne Yip Tsz Wa (also Yip Tsz Wa, Chinese: ???; pinyin: Yè Zhihuá; Jyutping: jip6 zi2 waa4; born October 22, 1990) is a Hong Kong swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.
  • Yip qualified for the women's 100 m breaststroke, as Hong Kong's youngest ever swimmer (aged 13), at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
  • She set a new Hong Kong record and posted a FINA B-standard entry time of 1:13.02 from the Asian Age Group Championships in her home venue.
  • She challenged seven other swimmers in heat two, including 15-year-old Alia Atkinson, who later became Jamaica's top swimmer.
  • She edged out Iceland's Íris Edda Heimisdóttir to claim a seventh spot by 0.82 of a second, outside her record time of 1:14.53.
  • Yip failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed thirty-ninth overall in the preliminaries.

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