Leung Chii Lin

Leung Chii Lin
Personal information
Full name Eileen Nicole Leung Chii Lin[1]
National team  Malaysia
Born (1991-02-11) 11 February 1991
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Height 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Weight 50 kg (110 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
Club University of Malaya[1]

Eileen Nicole Leung Chii Lin (born 11 February 1991) is a Malaysian swimmer, who specialised in sprint freestyle events.[2][1] She represented her nation Malaysia at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has won a career total of three medals (two silver and one bronze) in an international competition, spanning two editions of the Southeast Asian Games (2007 and 2009).[3]

Leung competed as a member of the Malaysian swimming squad in the women's 50 m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Leading up to the Games, she smashed a national record and a FINA B-cut time of 26.18 seconds at the Malaysian Open Championships in Bukit Jalil.[4][5] Leung rounded out the field in heat eight out of twelve to last place and forty-eighth overall with a 26.75, just 0.57 seconds off her entry standard.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Leung Chii Lin". Beijing 2008. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
  2. "Leung Chii Lin". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 1 December 2012.
  3. Lim, Teik Huat (1 November 2012). "Ex-national swimmer Chii Lin shows her mettle with four-gold display". Malaysia: The Star. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
  4. Lim, Teik Huat (5 May 2008). "Chii Lin breaks women’s 50m freestyle record and qualifies for Olympics". Malaysia: The Star. Retrieved 1 December 2012.
  5. "Olympic Cut Sheet – Women's 50m Freestyle" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 44. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  6. "Swimming: Women's 50m Freestyle – Heat 8". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 1 December 2012.

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