Chen Yan (; born March 27, 1981 in

Dalian Dalian () is a major sub-provincial port city in Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, and is Liaoning's second largest city (after the provincial capital Shenyang) and the third-most populous city of Northeast China. Located on the ...

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) is a retired

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. She won Gold medal at 4×200m freestyle at 1997 FINA Short Course World Championships. Later that year at Chinese National Games, she broke world record at 400m individual medley. She then won 400m individual medley and 400m freestyle at 1998 Perth World Aquatics Championships. She participated in 1996 and 2000 two Olympic Games but did not medal. Not to be confused with Chen Yan (swimmer, born 1979), she has never tested positive in any drug test. She started college in China and transferred to UH Manoa in 2002 as a sophomore. She earned her BS in 3 years, and swam on an Athlete Full Scholarship. She has recently completed a master's degree at UH and has been working in recreation management. She was the head coach for Punahou Aquatics in Honolulu, HI. She resigned on May 20, 2016 and is now a real-estate broker for Aloha Properties.

Personal Bests

In long course * 400m medley: 4:34.79 World Record (October 13, 1997) * 400m freestyle: 4:05.00 Asian Record (October 17, 1997) * 800m freestyle: 8:27.94 Asian Record (October 20, 1997)

References

1981 births Living people Swimmers from Dalian Chinese female medley swimmers Olympic swimmers of China Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics World record setters in swimming Chinese female freestyle swimmers World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) Asian Games medalists in swimming Asian Games silver medalists for China Asian Games bronze medalists for China Swimmers at the 1998 Asian Games Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games {{PRChina-swimming-bio-stub