Tam Chi Kin

Tam Chi Kin
Personal information
Full name Daniel Tam Chi Kin
Nationality  Hong Kong
Born 28 July 1980
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight 72 kg (159 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Breaststroke
Club SLA Sports Club
Coach Anthony Giorgi (AUS)
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Tan.

Daniel Tam Chi Kin (also Tam Chi Kin, Chinese: 譚智健; pinyin: Tán Zhìjiàn; Jyutping: taam4 zi3 gin6; born July 28, 1980 in Hong Kong Island) is a retired Hong Kong swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.[1] He is a two-time Olympian (2000 and 2004), and a double finalist in the 100 and 200 m breaststroke at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea.[2][3] Tam is a member of the swimming team for SLA Sports Club, and is trained by an Australian-born coach Anthony Giorgi.[4]

Tam made his official debut at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he competed in the 200 m breaststroke. Swimming in heat three, he edged out Costa Rica's Juan José Madrigal to take a seventh spot and forty-second overall by 0.45 of a second in 2:24.04.[5]

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Tam extended his program, competing both in the 100 and 200 breaststroke as Hong Kong's only male swimmer. He posted FINA B-standard entry times of 1:04.35 (100 m breaststroke) and 2:18.10 (200 m breaststroke) from the Olympic trials in Auckland.[6][7] On the first day of the Games, Tam raced to a strong time of 1:05.11 to lead the second heat of the 100 m breaststroke, but came up short with a forty-fourth place effort from the morning preliminaries.[8][9] In his second event, 200 m breaststroke, Tam challenged seven other swimmers in heat two, including dual citizen Mihail Alexandrov of Bulgaria. He rounded out the field to last place by 0.23 of a second behind New Zealand's Ben Labowitch in 2:19.48. Tam failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed forty-second overall in the preliminaries.[10][11]

References

  1. ↑ "Tam Chi Kin". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
  2. ↑ "Japan Takes Four of Five Events on Day One of Asian Games". Swimming World Magazine. 30 September 2002. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
  3. ↑ "Japan's Kitajima Breaks Barrowman's 200m Breaststroke World Record; Cracks 2:10 Barrier". Swimming World Magazine. 2 October 2002. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
  4. ↑ Chan, Kin-wa. "New athletics coach has broad expertise". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
  5. ↑ "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Men's 200m Breaststroke Heat 3" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 250. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
  6. ↑ "Swimming – Men's 100m Breaststroke Startlist (Heat 2)" (PDF). Athens 2004. Omega Timing. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
  7. ↑ "Swimming – Men's 200m Breaststroke Startlist (Heat 2)" (PDF). Athens 2004. Omega Timing. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
  8. ↑ "Men's 100m Breaststroke Heat 2". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 14 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  9. ↑ Whitten, Phillip (14 August 2004). "Prelims, Men's 100 Breaststroke: Kitajima, Hansen Qualify One-Two; Japanese Sets Olympic Record". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
  10. ↑ "Men's 200m Breaststroke Heat 2". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
  11. ↑ Thomas, Stephen (17 August 2004). "Men’s 200 Breaststroke Prelims, Day 4: 15 Year-Old Daniel Gyurta Continues the Hungarian Tradition, Leads with a Swift 2:11.29". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 11 April 2013.