Caroline Chiu Sin-wing (also ''Chiu Sin-wing'', ; born April 29, 1984) is a Hong Kong former swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events. She represented the new

Hong Kong, China Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a List of cities in China, city and Special administrative regions of China, special ...

, as a 16-year-old, at the

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, and was also a member of the territory's squad at the 2002 Asian Games. Chiu competed only in the women's 100 m breaststroke at the

in Sydney. She achieved a

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B-cut of 1:13.71 from the Asian Championships in Busan, South Korea. She challenged seven other swimmers in heat two, including Bolivia's 26-year-old

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and Angola's Nádia Cruz, who competed in her fourth Olympic Games at age 25. She raced to the fifth seed in a time of 1:15.87, just 2.16 seconds below her national record and an entry standard. Chiu failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed thirty-sixth overall in the prelims.

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HK Swim Bio
1984 births Living people Hong Kong female breaststroke swimmers Olympic swimmers of Hong Kong Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2002 Asian Games Asian Games competitors for Hong Kong {{HongKong-swimming-bio-stub