Anthony Ang Kang Keam (born 6 December 1978) is a Malaysian former swimmer, who specialised in butterfly events. He is a two-time Olympian (1996 and 2000), a double SEA Games titleholder in a butterfly double, a Bolles School graduate, and a member of

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(1998-1999) and University of Minnesota (2000-2002) swimming and diving team while studying in the United States. Ang accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the

in Tallahassee, Florida for 2 seasons (1998 & 1999) and later joined University of Minnesota in

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, where he played for the Minnesota Golden Gophers under head coach Kelly Kremer. In the year 2001 edition of Big Ten Men's Swimming and Diving Championships, he came in first in the 200-yard butterfly (1:44.25) along with rewriting both the varsity and pool record. At the 2001

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, he powered home with top finishes, as the only Gopher, in the 100-yard butterfly (49.09) and the 200-yard butterfly (1:46.21). Ang made his first Malaysian team, as an eighteen-year-old teen, at the

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in Atlanta. There, he failed to reach the top 16 final in any of his individual events, finishing forty-fifth in the

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(56.41), and thirty-first in the 200 m butterfly (2:04.01). He also placed twentieth, along with his Malaysian teammates

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, Elvin Chia, and Wan Azlan Abdullah, in the 4 × 100 m medley relay (3:56.24). At the

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, Ang competed again in three swimming events, including a butterfly double. He achieved FINA B-standards of 56.47 (100 m butterfly) and 2:02.72 (200 m butterfly) from the Southeast Asian Games in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei. In his first event, 200 m butterfly, Ang posted a lifetime best of 2:00.12 to lead the second heat, but missed the semifinals by 0.71 of a second with a twenty-second-place effort. Three days later, in the

, Ang placed thirty-sixth on the morning prelims. He established a Malaysian record of 55.26 to blister the field with another top finish in heat one. Ang also teamed up with Chia, Lim, and newcomer

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in the 4 × 100 m medley relay. Swimming a butterfly leg in heat one, Ang recorded a split of 55.70, but the Malaysians settled only for last place and twenty-second overall in a final time of 3:48.32. When Malaysia hosted the

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in Kuala Lumpur, Ang came up with a spectacular swim to strike a butterfly double in front of a massive home crowd, capturing two gold medals each in the 100 m butterfly (55.40) and 200 m butterfly (2:01.84).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ang, Anthony 1978 births Living people Malaysian sportspeople of Chinese descent Malaysian male butterfly swimmers Olympic swimmers for Malaysia Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games competitors for Malaysia Swimmers at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Florida State Seminoles men's swimmers Minnesota Golden Gophers men's swimmers Expatriate swimmers in the United States SEA Games medalists in swimming SEA Games gold medalists for Malaysia SEA Games silver medalists for Malaysia Competitors at the 1999 SEA Games Competitors at the 2001 SEA Games