Camille Cheng
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| Full name | Camille Cheng Lily-mei | ||||||||||||||||||||
| National team |  Hong Kong | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 9 May 1993 Hong Kong | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | University of California, Berkeley | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| Traditional Chinese | 鄭莉梅 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 郑莉梅 | ||||||||||
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Camille Cheng Lily Mei is a Hong Kong competitive swimmer.
She qualified to the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, and was selected to represent Hong Kong in the women's 50 metre freestyle, 100 metre freestyle, 200 metre freestyle, and 4x100 metre medley relay.[1]
Born on 9 May 1993 in Hong Kong to a Taiwanese father Cheng Wong-ping and French mother Catherine, Cheng cannot speak Cantonese.[2] She went to French International School until the age of nine, when her family moved to Beijing for her father's engineering job.[3] There she attended the International School of Beijing.[2]
She swam for the University of California, Berkley, team under Olympic coach Teri McKeever and alongside the already Olympian medallist Sara Isaković. She became joint captain in her final year before graduating university with a degree in Psychology. Cheng took Bronze at the Asian Games in 2014. In December 2015, Cheng made an Olympic A time (which guarantees a place) at the United States National Championships in 200 metre freestyle. She became one of three Hong Kong women to have ever made an A time.[3]
References
- ^ "Camille Cheng". rio2016.com. Archived from the original on 6 August 2016. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ a b "Camille Cheng." Swim Swam. Retrieved 2017-06-14.
- ^ a b "Road to Rio: How Hong Kong swim star Camille Cheng went from Olympic spectator to competitor." James Porteous. South China Morning Post. Alibaba. 13 May 2016. Retrieved 2017-06-14.
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