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Full name | Kuan Chia-hsien | |||||||||||
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Born | Taipei, Taiwan | 7 June 1985|||||||||||
Height | 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in) | |||||||||||
Weight | 43 kg (95 lb) | |||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||
Strokes | Backstroke | |||||||||||
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Kuan Chia-hsien ( Chinese: 官 佳嫻; pinyin: Guān Jiāxián; born June 7, 1985) is a Taiwanese former swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events. [1] Kuan competed in a backstroke double, as a 15-year-old, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She achieved FINA B-standards of 1:05.54 (100 m backstroke) and 2:21.12 (200 m backstroke) from the National University Games in Taipei. [2] [3] On the second day of the Games, Kuan placed fortieth in the 100 m backstroke. Swimming in heat two, she trailed behind the rest of the field over the race, and picked up a seventh seed in 1:07.18, more than 1.2 seconds below her entry standard. [4] [5] Four days later, in the 200 m backstroke, Kuan edged out Croatia's Petra Banović on the final stretch to post a third-seeded time of 2:24.61 from heat one, but finished only in thirty-third overall on the morning prelims. [6] [7]
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