Neo Chwee Kok, John Paul (; 31 May 1931 – 23 January 1987) was a

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 ...

swimmer Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water (e.g., in a sea or lake). Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic ...

who competed in the

1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin ...

. He was ranked third in a list of ''Singapore's 50 Greatest Athletes of the Century'' by ''

The Straits Times ''The Straits Times'' is an English-language daily broadsheet newspaper based in Singapore and currently owned by SPH Media Trust (previously Singapore Press Holdings). ''The Sunday Times'' is its Sunday edition. The newspaper was established ...

'' in 1999. Neo was born the fifth child in a family of eight in Singapore but grew up on Pulau Sambu,

Riau Riau is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the central eastern coast of Sumatra along the Strait of Malacca. The province shares land borders with North Sumatra to the northwest, West Sumatra to the west, and Jambi to the south. Accord ...

, Indonesia. On 23 January 1987, Neo died of cancer at the age of 55.

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* * * * * * 1931 births 1987 deaths Singaporean male freestyle swimmers Olympic swimmers for Singapore Swimmers at the 1952 Summer Olympics Asian Games gold medalists for Singapore Asian Games silver medalists for Singapore Asian Games bronze medalists for Singapore Asian Games medalists in swimming Swimmers at the 1951 Asian Games Swimmers at the 1954 Asian Games Medalists at the 1951 Asian Games Medalists at the 1954 Asian Games People from the Riau Islands 20th-century Singaporean people {{Singapore-swimming-bio-stub