Angela Chuck

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Angela Chuck
Personal information
Full nameAngela Dawn Chuck
National teamFlag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica
Born (1981-02-14) 14 February 1981 (age 43)
Kingston, Jamaica
Height1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight66 kg (146 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing Jamaica
Central American and Caribbean Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2002 San Salvador 200 m freestyle
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2002 San Salvador 100 m freestyle

Angela Dawn Chuck (born 14 February 1981) is a Jamaican former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. [1] She won a total of two medals, gold in the 200 m freestyle (2:07.81), and bronze in the 100 m freestyle (58.91), at the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador, El Salvador. [2] Chuck is a two-time Olympian (2000 and 2004) and a psychology graduate of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. [3]

Chuck made her first Jamaican team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she competed in the women's 50 m freestyle. Swimming in heat four, she picked up a second spot and forty-ninth overall by 0.60 of a second behind leader Yekaterina Tochenaya of Kazakhstan in 27.48. [4]

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Chuck qualified for the 100 m freestyle, by posting a FINA B-standard entry time of 57.59 from the Caribbean Championships in Kingston. [5] [6] She challenged seven other swimmers on the third heat, including Olympic veterans Dominique Diezi of Switzerland and Lara Heinz of Luxembourg. She edged out Iceland's Ragnheiður Ragnarsdóttir to take a seventh spot by 0.14 of a second, outside her entry time of 58.33. Chuck failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed thirty-ninth overall in the preliminaries. [7] [8]

Shortly after her second Olympics, Chuck retired from swimming to work as an assistant coach for the Blue Devils at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. [3]

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