Lynette Lim Shu En (Lim Shu-En, zh, 林淑恩 , born 25 April 1992) is an Olympic freestyle swimmer from

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

. She swam for Singapore at the

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and

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, the

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and 2007 World Championships, and the 2007 South East Asian Games. As of 2009, she holds the Singaporean Records in the women's 400m, 800m, and 1500m freestyles, and 4 × 100 m, 4 × 200 m freestyle relays.

Early years

Lim attended

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. She was in the class of 2010. She swam for the Piranha Swim Team in Palm Springs and the high school swim team for Palm Springs. Lim attended the

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, graduating in 2014 with a degree in

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, and was on the USC swimming and diving team as a distance freestyler. During her career at USC she was a three-time all-American on relay.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lim, Lynette 1992 births Living people Olympic swimmers for Singapore Asian Games competitors for Singapore Competitors at the 2007 SEA Games Palm Springs High School people People from Loma Linda, California Sportspeople from San Bernardino County, California SEA Games bronze medalists for Singapore SEA Games gold medalists for Singapore SEA Games medalists in swimming SEA Games silver medalists for Singapore Sportspeople from Palm Springs, California Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2010 Asian Games Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2014 Asian Games University of Southern California alumni Singaporean female freestyle swimmers 21st-century Singaporean women