Personal information | |
---|---|
Full name | Yvonne Yip Tsz-wa |
National team | Hong Kong |
Born | Hong Kong, Hong Kong | 22 October 1990
Height | 1.57 m (5 ft 2 in) |
Weight | 47 kg (104 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Swimming |
Strokes | Breaststroke |
Club | DL Trading Limited |
Yvonne Yip Tsz-wa OLY (also Yip Tsz-wa, Chinese: 葉芷華; pinyin: Yè Zhǐhuá; Jyutping: jip6 zi2waa4; born October 22, 1990) is a Hong Kong swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events. [1] Yip qualified for the women's 100 m breaststroke, as Hong Kong's youngest ever swimmer (aged 13), at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She set a new Hong Kong record and posted a FINA B-standard entry time of 1:13.02 from the Asian Age Group Championships in her home venue. [2] [3] [4] She challenged seven other swimmers in heat two, including 15-year-old Alia Atkinson, who later became Jamaica's top swimmer. She edged out Iceland's Íris Edda Heimisdóttir to claim a seventh spot by 0.82 of a second, outside her record time of 1:14.53. Yip failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed thirty-ninth overall in the preliminaries. [5] [6]
Personal information | |
---|---|
Full name | Yvonne Yip Tsz-wa |
National team | Hong Kong |
Born | Hong Kong, Hong Kong | 22 October 1990
Height | 1.57 m (5 ft 2 in) |
Weight | 47 kg (104 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Swimming |
Strokes | Breaststroke |
Club | DL Trading Limited |
Yvonne Yip Tsz-wa OLY (also Yip Tsz-wa, Chinese: 葉芷華; pinyin: Yè Zhǐhuá; Jyutping: jip6 zi2waa4; born October 22, 1990) is a Hong Kong swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events. [1] Yip qualified for the women's 100 m breaststroke, as Hong Kong's youngest ever swimmer (aged 13), at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She set a new Hong Kong record and posted a FINA B-standard entry time of 1:13.02 from the Asian Age Group Championships in her home venue. [2] [3] [4] She challenged seven other swimmers in heat two, including 15-year-old Alia Atkinson, who later became Jamaica's top swimmer. She edged out Iceland's Íris Edda Heimisdóttir to claim a seventh spot by 0.82 of a second, outside her record time of 1:14.53. Yip failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed thirty-ninth overall in the preliminaries. [5] [6]