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Full name | Marylyn Chiang | |||||||||||||||||
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Born | 1977 (age 46–47) | |||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Backstroke | |||||||||||||||||
College team | University of California, Berkeley | |||||||||||||||||
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Marylyn Chiang (born 1977) [1] is a Canadian former swimmer who won two silver medals at the 2000 FINA Short Course World Championships in Athens, Greece. [2] She has held Commonwealth, US Open, NCAA and Canadian records in backstroke and butterfly, including the Canadian 100m backstroke record for 9 years. In her collegiate career, she led a resurgence in University of California, Berkeley's swimming program, when she won the first NCAA title for the school in the sport in eleven years. [3] In so doing, she set an NCAA record. Further, won the first of five consecutive Pacific-10 Conference female swimmer of the year honors for the Golden Bears in 1999. [4] Haley Cope would win in 2000, and Natalie Coughlin three times in a row, from 2001 to 2003. [5] In 2009, Marylyn was inducted in Cal Berkeley's Sports Hall of Fame. [6]
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Full name | Marylyn Chiang | |||||||||||||||||
National team | ![]() | |||||||||||||||||
Born | 1977 (age 46–47) | |||||||||||||||||
Sport | ||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Backstroke | |||||||||||||||||
College team | University of California, Berkeley | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Marylyn Chiang (born 1977) [1] is a Canadian former swimmer who won two silver medals at the 2000 FINA Short Course World Championships in Athens, Greece. [2] She has held Commonwealth, US Open, NCAA and Canadian records in backstroke and butterfly, including the Canadian 100m backstroke record for 9 years. In her collegiate career, she led a resurgence in University of California, Berkeley's swimming program, when she won the first NCAA title for the school in the sport in eleven years. [3] In so doing, she set an NCAA record. Further, won the first of five consecutive Pacific-10 Conference female swimmer of the year honors for the Golden Bears in 1999. [4] Haley Cope would win in 2000, and Natalie Coughlin three times in a row, from 2001 to 2003. [5] In 2009, Marylyn was inducted in Cal Berkeley's Sports Hall of Fame. [6]