Quah Jing Wen
Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Full name | Quah Jing Wen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Singapore | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | [2] Singapore | 20 December 2000||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 4+1⁄2 in)[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 48 kg (106 lb)[4] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle, butterfly, IM[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
|
Quah Jing Wen (Chinese:柯敬文; born December 20, 2000) is a Singaporean swimmer who focuses on the category of the 400m individual medley, the 100, 200m butterfly, and the 100m freestyle.[8]
Career
Quah Jing Wen clocked 2min 12.95sec and set an Under-17 200m butterfly Singaporean national record at the Neo Garden 13th Singapore National Swimming Championships, breaking Tao Li's record set in 2005.[9]
Quah won the bronze in the 2015 SEA Games when making her debut in the 400m IM.
In 2017, Quah won 5 gold medals and a silver medal at the Commonwealth Youth Games, held in Nassar.[10] In the same year, she also won 5 gold medals in the 2017 SEA Games.[11]
Personal life
Quah has an elder sister, Quah Ting Wen, and an elder brother, Quah Zheng Wen, who also represent Singapore in swimming.[12][13]
Quah attended Methodist Girls' School and Anglo-Chinese School (Independent).[14][15] She left Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) early in order to enrol at Texas A&M University in 2017.[15]
See also
References
- ^ "Quah Jing Wen". Active SG. 16 May 2018. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
- ^ "Quah Jing Wen". Active SG. 16 May 2018. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
- ^ "Quah Jing Wen". The Staits Times. 14 June 2018. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
- ^ "Quah Jing Wen weight" (PDF). Singapore Sports Council. 14 June 2018. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
- ^ "Quah Jing Wen". The Straits Times. 16 May 2018. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
- ^ "Quah Jing Wen 100m fly silver". The Straits Times. 9 December 2019. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
- ^ "Quah Jing Wen". The Straits Times. 16 May 2018. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
- ^ "Quah Jing Wen". Active SG. 16 May 2018. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
- ^ "Quah Jing Wen breaks Tao Li's Mark". The Straits Times. 21 May 2018. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
- ^ "Youngest Quah a star in own right". The Straits Times. Retrieved 26 May 2018.
- ^ "Quah Jing Wen". Active SG. 16 May 2018. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
- ^ "Aquatic Family". 22 May 2018. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Quah Jing Wen shines on SEA Games debut as elder siblings strike gold". SG Yahoo. Retrieved 26 May 2018.
- ^ Heng, Lim Say (6 June 2015). "Quah siblings raring to make waves at SEA Games". The New Paper. Retrieved 30 July 2020.
- ^ a b Chen, May (31 July 2017). "National swimmer Quah Jing Wen to join Texas A&M University's top-tier swim team". The Straits Times. Retrieved 30 July 2020.
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
- 2000 births
- Living people
- Singaporean female swimmers
- Swimmers at the 2018 Asian Games
- Asian Games bronze medalists for Singapore
- Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games
- Asian Games medalists in swimming
- Southeast Asian Games medalists in swimming
- Southeast Asian Games gold medalists for Singapore
- Southeast Asian Games bronze medalists for Singapore
- Competitors at the 2015 Southeast Asian Games
- Competitors at the 2017 Southeast Asian Games
- Competitors at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games
- Southeast Asian Games silver medalists for Singapore
- Female freestyle swimmers
- Female butterfly swimmers
- Female medley swimmers
- Methodist Girls' High School, Singapore alumni
- Anglo-Chinese School alumni