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| Full name | Lew Yih Wey | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team |  Malaysia | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 27 June 1991 Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.56 m (5 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 50 kg (110 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle, backstroke, medley | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Kelab Paroi Negeri Sembilan[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Lew Yih Wey (born 27 June 1991) is a Malaysian swimmer, who specialised in long-distance freestyle, backstroke, and individual medley events.[2][1] She represented her nation Malaysia at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has won a career total of four medals (one gold and three bronze) in a major international competition, spanning the 2007 Southeast Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand.[3]
Lew competed for the Malaysian swimming team in the women's 400 m individual medley at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Three months before the Games, she produced a record-breaking effort and cleared a FINA B-cut of 4:50.52 to earn her Olympic debut at the Malaysian Open Championships in Bukit Jalil. Her winning time from the meet also erased the national mark of 4:51.01, set by Siow Yi Ting at the 2003 Southeast Asian Games in Hanoi, Vietnam.[4][5] Swimming as the fastest entrant in heat one, Lew attempted to chase Singapore's Quah Ting Wen and 2004 Olympic finalist Nam Yoo-sun of South Korea at the final turn of the race, but could not catch them near the wall to finish only with a third-place time and thirty-fourth overall in 4:55.83, just more than five seconds outside her national record.[6][7]
- ^ a b c "Lew Yih Wey". Beijing 2008. Archived from the original on 3 June 2009. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Lew Yih Wey". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 1 December 2012.
- ^ "Lew Yih Wey snatches women's 200m backstroke gold at SEA Games". People's Daily. 7 December 2007. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
- ^ Lim, Teik Huat (2 May 2008). "Swimming: Yih Wey makes cut". The Star. Malaysia. Archived from the original on 4 June 2008. Retrieved 1 December 2012.
- ^ "Swimmer Yih Wey makes it to Beijing". The Malaysian Insider. 2 May 2008. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 1 December 2012.
- ^ "Swimming: Women's 400m Individual Medley – Heat 1". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 25 August 2012. Retrieved 1 December 2012.
- ^ "Game over as Yih Wey sinks in the pool". The Star. Malaysia. 10 August 2008. Retrieved 1 December 2012.