Marilyn Chua

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Marilyn Chua
Personal information
Full nameMarilyn Chua Yu Ching
National teamFlag of Malaysia 23px.svg  Malaysia
Born (1980-08-25) 25 August 1980 (age 43)
Selangor, Malaysia
Height1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight62 kg (137 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
College team University of California, Los Angeles (U.S.)
CoachCyndi Gallagher (U.S.)

Marilyn Chua Yu Ching (born 25 August 1980) is a Malaysian former swimmer, who specialised in sprint freestyle events. [1] Chua represented Malaysia, as a 20-year-old, at the 2000 Summer Olympics, and formerly held a Malaysian record in the 50 m freestyle, before it was eventually broken by Cindy Ong in 2004. [2] Chua also attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where she majored in international development studies and swam for the UCLA Bruins, under head coach Cyndi Gallagher. [3] [4]

Chua competed only in the women's 50 m freestyle at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She achieved a FINA B-cut of 27.16 from the Janet Evans Invitational in Los Angeles, California. [5] [6] She challenged seven other swimmers in heat four, including Russian import Yekaterina Tochenaya of Kyrgyzstan, and Yugoslavia's two-time Olympian Duška Radan. Chua faded down the stretch to a third seed in 27.66, exactly half a second (0.50) below her national record and an entry standard, and 0.78 seconds off a leading time set by Tochenaya. Chua failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed fifty-second overall out of 74 swimmers in the prelims. [7] [8] [9]

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