Nguyễn Thị Hương (born March 5, 1982) is a Vietnamese former swimmer, who specialized in individual medley events. Nguyen swam for
Vietnam
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in the
women's 400 m individual medley at the
2000 Summer Olympics
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in
Sydney. She received a ticket from
FINA
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, under a Universality program, in an entry time of 5:24.94. She participated in heat one against three other swimmers
Georgina Bardach of Argentina, 26-year-old
Jana Korbasová of Slovakia, and
Alexandra Zertsalova of Kyrgyzstan. She rounded out a small field to last place in 5:26.56, the slowest of all in the heats, just two seconds off her lifetime best and entry standard. Nguyen failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed twenty-eighth overall on the first day of prelims.
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1982 births
Living people
Vietnamese female medley swimmers
Olympic swimmers for Vietnam
Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
21st-century Vietnamese women
21st-century Vietnamese people
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