Quah Ting Wen

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Quah Ting Wen
Personal information
Nationality  Singapore
Born (1992-08-18) 18 August 1992 (age 31)
Singapore
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Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle, IM

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Quah Ting Wen (Chinese: 柯婷文; born 18 August 1992) is a Singaporean competitive swimmer [1]

Quah was Singapore's flag bearer for the 2009 Asian Youth Games.[2] She subsequently 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).[3] She also 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 Olympics Games, Quah failed to qualify from the heats in 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.[4]

She has also swum for Singapore at the:

Personal life

Quah has a younger brother, Quah Zheng Wen, as well as a younger sister, Quah Jing Wen, where both are also swimming representatives for Singapore.[5]

References

  1. Quah's entry from www.sports-reference.com; retrieved 2009-07-20.
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