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| Born | 18 August 1992 Singapore | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Butterfly, Freestyle, Individual Medley | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| College team | University of California, Los Angeles [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Quah Ting Wen (born 18 August 1992) is a Singaporean professional swimmer who specialises in butterfly,freestyle and individual medley events. She is currently representing DC Trident at the International Swimming League. [2]
Quah was educated at Raffles Girls' School and Raffles Institution, [3] before graduating from the University of California,Los Angeles in 2014. [4]
Quah had represented the UCLA Bruins during her time at the University of California,Los Angeles. [5]
Quah first represented Singapore on the international level in the 2005 Southeast Asian Games. [6]
At the 2008 Olympic Games,Quah failed to qualify in the heats of the 400m Individual Medley event but set a new national record (4:51.25).
Quah was Singapore's flag bearer for the 2009 Asian Youth Games. [7] She won three individual gold medals in the 50 m,100 m and 200 m freestyle events while setting national records for all three (25.43,55.57 and 1:59.21). [8] She won the team gold and bronze medals in the 4 ×100 m freestyle relay and 4 ×100 m medley relay events,respectively.
Quah set a new national record in the 200 m freestyle event in the second leg of the 2013 FINA Swimming World Cup,held in Berlin,Germany. Her new timing of 1:58.80 was 0.09 seconds faster than Lynette Lim's three-day-old record of 1:58.89. [9]
Quah has represented Singapore and won,at the following games:
Quah has a younger brother,Quah Zheng Wen,and a younger sister,Quah Jing Wen,who both are national swimmers of Singapore as well. [10]
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Singapore competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro,Brazil,from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's sixteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics,except for two different editions. Singapore was part of the Malaysian team at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo,but did not attend at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow,because of its support for the United States boycott.
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Swimming competitions at the 2015 SEA Games was held at the OCBC Aquatic Centre in the Singapore Sports Hub in Kallang,Singapore from 6 to 11 June 2015. Built only a year earlier,the venue is hosting the SEA Games for the first time. It was used to host the second Southeast Asian Swimming Championships in 2014 as a test bed for the organisers,with the 2015 Southeast Asian Games volunteers hired to also volunteer in the 2014 Swimming Championships to help in the familiarisation of the new venue.
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Singapore sent a delegation to compete at the 2023 SEA Games held in Phnom Penh,Cambodia from 5 to 17 May 2023.
Singapore has sent thousands of athletes to the celebration of the Southeast Asian Games over the decades,starting with the first edition in 1959 as a founding member. Since then,the country has sent athletes to every edition. The Singapore National Olympic Council (SNOC) is the National Olympic Committee for Singapore,which also oversees athletes going for the competition.
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