Chen Hua (born October 20, 1982)Profile of Chen Hua
is a two-time Olympic swimmer, and former World Record holder, from

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

. She swam for China at the

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

and

2004 Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

. She was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. In December 2001, she set a

short course In swimming, the term short course (abbreviated SC) is used to identify a pool that is in length. The term is also often included in meet names when conducted in a short course pool. "Short course" is the second type of pool configuration current ...

World Record in the 800 freestyle, which stood for two months.(scw-m
Japan's Yamada Breaks World Record for 800m Free Short Course
by Hideki Moziuchi; published by ''

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'' on 2002-04-02, retrieved 2012-03-25. She swam for China at the: *Olympics:

and

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

*World Championships:

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

*Asian Games:

*World University Games:

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

*Short Course Worlds:

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...

and

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

References

1982 births Living people Swimmers from Zhejiang Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic swimmers of China Sportspeople from Hangzhou Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) Asian Games medalists in swimming Swimmers at the 1998 Asian Games Swimmers at the 2002 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for China Asian Games silver medalists for China Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games Universiade medalists in swimming Universiade gold medalists for China Universiade silver medalists for China Universiade bronze medalists for China Medalists at the 2003 Summer Universiade Chinese female freestyle swimmers 21st-century Chinese women {{PRChina-swimming-bio-stub