Quah Ting Wen
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 Singapore | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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18 August 1992 Singapore | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle, IM | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Quah Ting Wen (Chinese: 柯婷文; born 18 August 1992) is a Singaporean competitive swimmer [1]
Quah was Singapore's flag bearer for the 2009 Asian Youth Games.[2] She won three individual gold medals in the 50 m, 100 m and 200 m freestyle events while setting national records for all three (25.43, 55.57 and 1:59.21).[3] She won the team gold and bronze medals in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay and 4 × 100 m medley relay events, respectively.
At the 2008 Olympics Games, Quah failed to qualify in the heats of the 400m Individual Medley event but set a new national record (4:51.25).
Quah set a new national record in the 200 m freestyle event in the second leg of the 2013 FINA Swimming World Cup, held in Berlin, Germany. Her new timing of 1:58.80 was 0.09 seconds faster than Lynette Lim's three-day-old record of 1:58.89.[4]
She swam for Singapore at the following games, winning...
- 2005 Southeast Asian Games (Two silvers, two bronzes)
- 2006 Commonwealth Games
- 2006 Asian Games
- 2007 Southeast Asian Games (Two golds, three silvers)
- 2009 Southeast Asian Games
- 2013 Southeast Asian Games
- 2014 Asian Games
- 2015 Southeast Asian Games
Personal life
Quah has a younger brother, Quah Zheng Wen, who is a national swimmer of note. Her younger sister, Quah Jing Wen is a national swimmer of Singapore too. [5]
References
- ↑ Quah's entry from www.sports-reference.com; retrieved 2009-07-20.
- ↑ "Flagged for AYG success". AsiaOne. Retrieved 17 December 2013.
- ↑ "New golden girl". AsiaOne. Retrieved 17 December 2013.
- ↑ "Swimmers set new short-course marks". Today. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
- ↑ "The 1 to watch". AsiaOne. Retrieved 15 December 2013.