Chan Wing Suet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Chan Wing Suet

Olympic swimmer

Date of Birth: 26-Sep-1986

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

Profession: swimmer

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Chan Wing Suet

  • Sandy Chan Wing Suet (also Chan Wing Suet, or Sandy Chan Chinese: ???; pinyin: Chén Yongxue; Jyutping: can4 wing6 syut3; born September 26, 1986) is a Hong Kong former swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events.
  • She is a two-time Olympian (2000 and 2004) and a double finalist at the Asian Games (2002).
  • Chan made her Olympic debut, as Hong Kong's youngest swimmer (aged 13), at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she competed in the women's 200 m butterfly.
  • She topped the first heat in a time of 2:19.86, but finished only in thirty-third overall from the preliminaries.At the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea, Chan attempted to claim her first career medal, but settled only for seventh place in the 100 m butterfly, and fifth in the 200 m butterfly (2:17.42).At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Chan qualified again for the 200 m butterfly, by posting a FINA B-cut of 2:16.49 from the Hong Kong Championships in Kowloon.
  • She challenged seven other swimmers on the same heat as Sydney, including 15-year-old Maria Bulakhova of Russia.
  • She raced to fourth place by three tenths of a second (0.30) behind Slovenia's Anja Klinar in 2:18.45.
  • Chan failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed twenty-ninth overall in the prelims.

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