Lin Chi-chan (; born January 11, 1980) is a Taiwanese former swimmer, who specialized in long-distance freestyle but also competed in backstroke. She represented Chinese Taipei in two editions of the

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(1996 and 2000), and later earned two medals each in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay (3:51.42), and 4 × 200 m freestyle relay (8:18.92) at the

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. Lin made her first Chinese Taipei team, as a 16-year-old teen, at the

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. There, she failed to medal in any of her individual events, finishing eleventh in the 400 m freestyle (4:15.74), ninth in the 800 m freestyle (8:40.31), and thirty-third in the 200 m backstroke (2:24.50). A member of the Chinese Taipei team, she placed eighteenth in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay (3:56.39), and nineteenth in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay (8:27.61). At the

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in Sydney, Lin drastically shortened her program, swimming only in a long-distance freestyle double. She achieved

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B-standards of 4:20.19 (400 m freestyle) and 8:53.44 (800 m freestyle) from the National University Games in

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. On the second day of the Games, Lin placed twenty-fifth in the 400 m freestyle. Swimming in heat two, she raced to the fourth seed in 4:17.76, sufficiently enough for her lifetime best. Five days later, in the 800 m freestyle, Lin participated in heat one against three other swimmers

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of Bulgaria, Patricia Villarreal of Mexico, and Cecilia Biagioli of Argentina. Leading the first 250 metres of the race, she faded down the stretch over the remaining laps to pick up a third seed and twenty-fourth overall at 9:01.09.

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