Sia Wai Yen

Sia Wai Yen
Personal information
Full name Sia Wai Yen
National team  Malaysia
Born (1984-01-15) 15 January 1984
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight 62 kg (137 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle, medley
Medal record
Women's swimming
Competitor for Malaysia
Southeast Asian Games
2001 Kuala Lumpur 400 m medley
1999 Brunei 400 m medley
2001 Kuala Lumpur 400 m freestyle
2001 Kuala Lumpur 200 m medley

Sia Wai Yen (born 15 January 1984) is a Malaysian former swimmer, who specialised in long-distance freestyle and individual medley events.[1] She represented Malaysia, as a 16-year-old teen, at the 2000 Summer Olympics, captured a total of four medals in two editions of the Southeast Asian Games (1999 and 2001), and later became a top 8 finalist at the 2002 Asian Games.

Sia competed in a medley double at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She achieved FINA B-standards of 2:20.64 (200 m individual medley) and 4:52.52 (400 m individual medley) from the Southeast Asian Games in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei.[2][3][4] On the first day of the Games, Sia placed twenty-fifth in the 400 m individual medley. Swimming in heat four, she raced to the bottom of the pack in a poor time of 4:59.18, more than six seconds farther from her national record.[5][6][7] Two days later, in the 200 m individual medley, Sia posted a time of 2:20.64 to round out the field in heat two, but finished in thirty-first place among 36 other swimmers from the prelims.[8][9][10]

When her nation hosted the 2001 Southeast Asian Games in Kuala Lumpur, Sia enjoyed the race of her life in the pool, as she completed a full set of medals in front of a raucous home crowd: gold in the 400 m individual medley (4:55.87), and two bronze each in the 400 m freestyle (4:24.87) and 200 m individual medley (2:22.44).[11][12]

At the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea, Sia finished seventh in the 400 m individual medley at 5:06.20, holding off a sprint freestyle race from Hong Kong's Chan Wing Suet by four-hundredths of a second (0.04).[13]

References

  1. ↑ "Sia Wai Yen". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
  2. ↑ "Swimming – Women's 200m Individual Medley Startlist (Heat 2)" (PDF). Sydney 2000. Omega Timing. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
  3. ↑ "Swimming – Women's 400m Individual Medley Startlist (Heat 4)" (PDF). Sydney 2000. Omega Timing. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
  4. ↑ "Albert's saving grace brings gold in the pool". Jakarta: The Jakarta Post. 14 August 1999. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
  5. ↑ "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 400m Individual Medley Heat 4" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 330. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
  6. ↑ Newberry, Paul (16 September 2000). "Thompson anchors U.S. relay win; Thorpe wins 400 free". Canoe.ca. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
  7. ↑ "Double misses for Elvin Chia, two others break down". Utusan Malaysia. 16 September 2000. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
  8. ↑ "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 200m Individual Medley Heat 2" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 323. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
  9. ↑ "Malchow sets Olympic record in 200 fly". Canoe.ca. 18 September 2000. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
  10. ↑ "Anthony Ang breaks national record in Sydney". Utusan Malaysia. 18 September 2000. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
  11. ↑ "Malaysian, Filipino win big". Sports Illustrated (CNN). 13 September 2001. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
  12. ↑ "Singapore swimming queen's heir apparent shows mettle". Utusan Malaysia. 11 September 2000. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
  13. ↑ "Wu and Qi Win Third Gold Apiece, as China Winds Up a Dominant Performance at Asian Games". Swimming World Magazine. 5 October 2002. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
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