Quah Ting Wen
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Born | Singapore | 18 August 1992|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle, IM | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | University of California, Los Angeles [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Quah Ting Wen (Chinese: 柯婷文; born 18 August 1992) is a Singaporean competitive swimmer [2]
Quah was Singapore's flag bearer for the 2009 Asian Youth Games.[3] 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).[4] She won the team gold and bronze medals in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay and 4 × 100 m medley relay events, respectively.
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 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.[5]
She swam for Singapore at the following games, winning...
- 2005 Southeast Asian Games (Two silvers, two bronzes)
- 2006 Commonwealth Games
- 2006 Asian Games
- 2007 Southeast Asian Games (Two golds, three silvers)
- 2009 Southeast Asian Games (Four golds, two silvers, one bronze)
- 2013 Southeast Asian Games (Two golds, three silvers)
- 2014 Asian Games
- 2015 Southeast Asian Games(Four golds, four silvers)
- 2017 Southeast Asian Games (Four golds, one silver, one bronze)
Personal life
Quah has a younger brother, Quah Zheng Wen, who is a national swimmer of note. Her younger sister, Quah Jing Wen is also a national swimmer of Singapore.[6]
References
- ^ http://uclabruins.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=1087
- ^ Quah's entry from www.sports-reference.com; retrieved 2009-07-20.
- ^ "Flagged for AYG success". AsiaOne. Archived from the original on 19 December 2013. Retrieved 17 December 2013.
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- ^ "Swimmers set new short-course marks". Today. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
- ^ "The 1 to watch". AsiaOne. Retrieved 15 December 2013.
- 1992 births
- Living people
- Singaporean female swimmers
- Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic swimmers of Singapore
- Swimmers at the 2006 Asian Games
- Swimmers at the 2010 Asian Games
- Swimmers at the 2014 Asian Games
- Swimmers at the 2018 Asian Games
- Asian Games bronze medalists for Singapore
- Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games
- Singaporean people of Chinese descent
- Sportspeople of Chinese descent
- Commonwealth Games competitors for Singapore
- Swimmers at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Swimmers at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Southeast Asian Games gold medalists for Singapore
- Southeast Asian Games silver medalists for Singapore
- Southeast Asian Games bronze medalists for Singapore
- Southeast Asian Games medalists in swimming
- Asian swimming biography stubs
- Singaporean sportspeople stubs