Vilayphone Vongphachanh

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Vilayphone Vongphachanh (born April 26, 1989) is a female Laotian Olympic freestyle swimmer.^[1] As a member of the Laos team she competed at the age of 15 in the 2004 Summer Olympics in the Women's 50m Freestyle.^[1]^[2]

She had the slowest time out of all 73 women in the event.^[2] Her result was typical for Laos, which up to the 2004 games, has (with one exception) always placed last or next to last in every event it has competed in.^[3] In Laos, she was only able to train in a pool half the size of a standard Olympic size swimming pool, and like other Laotian athletes had limited times to do so.^[3] Sue Maci of Parade attributed the poor results to Laos being one of the ten poorest countries in the world.^[3]

Previously, in 2003, she competed in the 10th FINA World Championships in Barcelona.^[4]^[5] She ranked 98 out of 100 (finishers) in the 50m freestyle, and 57 out of 58 in the 50m breaststroke.^[4]^[5]

As of 2006 Vilayphone Vongphachanh is a swimming judge for the FINA Masters^[6]

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b "Turin 2006 Winter Olympics, Vilayphone Vongphachanh - - Yahoo! Sports", Yahoo!; URL accessed May 23, 2006.
^ ^a ^b "Women's 50m freestyle results", BBC News, August 21, 2004.
^ ^a ^b ^c Macy, Sue, "Make The Olympics A Family Affair", Parade, August 8, 2004
^ ^a ^b "10th FINA World Championships: BARCELONA 2003 (PDF)", originally published by FINA and hosted by the Polish Swimming Federation (at polswim.pl); URL accessed May 23, 2006.
^ ^a ^b "2003 FINA World Championships Day 7 Prelims ", Swimming World magazine, July 26, 2003.
^ "FINA masters officials - list no 7 (1.7.05 - 31.12.08)", FINA; URL accessed May 24, 2006.

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NAME	Vongphachanh, Vilayphone
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Olympic swimmer for Laos
DATE OF BIRTH	1989-04-26
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DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH