Caroline Chiu

Caroline Chiu
Personal information
Full nameCaroline Chiu Sin-wing
National team Hong Kong
Born (1984-04-29) 29 April 1984 (age 40)
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Height1.53 m (5 ft 0 in)
Weight40 kg (88 lb)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesBreaststroke

Caroline Chiu Sin-wing (also Chiu Sin-wing, Chinese: 趙善穎; pinyin: Zhào Shànyǐng; Jyutping: ziu6 sin6wing6; born April 29, 1984) is a Hong Kong former swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.[1] She represented the new Hong Kong, China, as a 16-year-old, at the 2000 Summer Olympics, and was also a member of the territory's squad at the 2002 Asian Games.

Chiu competed only in the women's 100 m breaststroke at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She achieved a FINA B-cut of 1:13.71 from the Asian Championships in Busan, South Korea.[2][3] She challenged seven other swimmers in heat two, including Bolivia's 26-year-old Katerine Moreno and Angola's Nádia Cruz, who competed in her fourth Olympic Games at age 25. She raced to the fifth seed in a time of 1:15.87, just 2.16 seconds below her national record and an entry standard. Chiu failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed thirty-sixth overall in the prelims.[4][5]

  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Caroline Chiu". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 3 July 2017. Retrieved 19 June 2013.
  2. ^ "Swimming – Women's 100m Breaststroke Startlist (Heat 2)" (PDF). Sydney 2000. Omega Timing. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
  3. ^ Wong, Jacky (September 2000). "Swimmer gets through to Olympics". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 19 June 2013.
  4. ^ "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 100m Breaststroke Heat 2" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 258. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 August 2011. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
  5. ^ "Dolan breaks own world mark in 400 IM". Canoe.ca. 17 September 2000. Archived from the original on June 16, 2013. Retrieved 28 May 2013.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)