Yip Tsz Wa

Yip Tsz Wa
Personal information
Full name Yvonne Yip Tsz Wa
Nationality  Hong Kong
Born 22 October 1990
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Height 1.57 m (5 ft 2 in)
Weight 47 kg (104 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Breaststroke
Club DL Trading Limited
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Ye.

Yvonne Yip Tsz Wa (also Yip Tsz Wa, Chinese: 葉芷華; pinyin: Yè Zhǐhuá; Jyutping: jip6 zi2 waa4; born October 22, 1990 in Hong Kong Island) is a Hong Kong swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.[1] 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.[2][3][4] 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.[5][6]

References

  1. "Yip Tsz Wa". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 30 April 2013.
  2. "Swimming – Women's 100m Breaststroke Startlist (Heat 2)" (PDF). Athens 2004. Omega Timing. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
  3. Powell, Jonathan. "Encouraging win for Olympics hopeful". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
  4. Powell, Jonathan. "Perfect timing by schoolgirls". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 30 April 2013.
  5. "Women's 100m Breaststroke Heat 2". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  6. Thomas, Stephen (15 August 2004). "Women’s 100 Breaststroke Prelims: Aussies Hanson and Jones Qualify One-Two". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 19 April 2013.