Teran Matthews

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Teran Matthews
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Full nameTeran Matthews
National teamFlag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.svg  St. Vincent
Born (1980-02-14) 14 February 1980 (age 44)
Height1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight56 kg (123 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle

Teran Matthews (born February 14, 1980) is a former swimmer from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. [1] Matthews competed only in the women's 50 m freestyle at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She received a ticket from FINA, under a Universality program, in an entry time of 31.87. [2] She challenged six other swimmers in heat two, including Cambodia's two-time Olympian Hem Raksmey and Maldives' 13-year-old Fariha Fathimath. Diving in with a 0.94-second deficit, she scorched the field with a quick pace to a fifth-seeded time of 31.87 and slash off her entry standard by 16-hundredths of a second. Matthews failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed sixty-seventh overall in the prelims. [3] [4] [5]

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