Chan Wing Suet

Chan Wing Suet
Personal information
Full name Sandy Chan Wing Suet
Nationality  Hong Kong
Born 26 September 1986
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Height 1.64 m (5 ft 4 1⁄2 in)
Weight 50 kg (110 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Butterfly
Club HTA Sports Club
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Chan.

Sandy Chan Wing Suet (also Chan Wing Suet, or Sandy Chan Chinese: 陳詠雪; pinyin: Chén Yǒngxuě; Jyutping: can4 wing6 syut3; born September 26, 1986 in Hong Kong Island) is a retired Hong Kong swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events.[1] She is a two-time Olympian (2000 and 2004) and a double finalist at the Asian Games (2002).

Chan made her official 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.[2]

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).[3][4]

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.[5][6] 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 preliminaries.[7][8]

References

  1. ↑ "Chan Wing Suet". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 30 April 2013.
  2. ↑ "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 200m Butterfly Heat 1" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 232. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
  3. ↑ "Japan Takes Four of Five Events on Day One of Asian Games". Swimming World Magazine. 30 September 2002. Retrieved 30 April 2013.
  4. ↑ "Japan's Kitajima Breaks Barrowman's 200m Breaststroke World Record; Cracks 2:10 Barrier". Swimming World Magazine. 2 October 2002. Retrieved 30 April 2013.
  5. ↑ "Swimming – Women's 200m Butterfly Startlist (Heat 1)" (PDF). Athens 2004. Omega Timing. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
  6. ↑ Powell, Jonathan. "Perfect timing by schoolgirls". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 30 April 2013.
  7. ↑ "Women's 200m Butterfly Heat 2". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 17 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  8. ↑ Thomas, Stephen (17 August 2004). "Women's 200 Butterfly Prelims, Day 4: Jedrzejczak Fastest. Nakanishi, Risztov, Sandeno and Thomas All Qualify". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 24 April 2013.