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| Full name | Chui Lai Kwan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | June 3, 1990 Sabah, Malaysia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 6 in (168 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 152 lb (69 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Marilyn Chua | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Chui Lai Kwan (born June 3, 1990) is a former competitive swimmer on the national Malaysian swim team. [1]
She left the Malaysian national team in 2011 after a dispute with the Amateur Swimming Union of Malaysia (ASUM), after the 2011 Summer Universiade in Shenzhen. [2] [3] [4]
At the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, Kwan ranked fifteenth in the 50-meter freestyle with a time of 26:00. She also placed seventeenth in the 50-meter freestyle (57:60). [5]
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