Nieh Pin-chieh (; born June 12, 1988) is a Taiwanese swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. She represented the

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national team in two editions of the Olympic Games (2004 and 2008), competing in a sprint freestyle double. Nieh made her own swimming history, as a 16-year-old teen, at the

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, where she competed in the women's 50 m freestyle. Swimming in heat five, she posted a lifetime best of 27.09 seconds to pick up a fourth spot, but trailed behind Puerto Rico's

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by more than a second. Furthermore, Nieh tied for forty-first overall with Hungary's

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in the prelims. At the

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, Nieh qualified for her second Chinese Taipei team in the

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. She attained a FINA-B cut of 57.02 seconds from the National Games in her native

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a year earlier. Nieh challenged against five other swimmers in heat two, including three from Southeast Asia. She came only in fifth by nearly five eighths of a second (0.61) behind

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of the Philippines with a 57.28. Nieh failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed forty-third out of 49 swimmers in the overall rankings.

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1988 births Living people Taiwanese female freestyle swimmers Olympic swimmers for Taiwan Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2006 Asian Games Sportspeople from Taipei Asian Games competitors for Chinese Taipei 20th-century Taiwanese women 21st-century Taiwanese women {{Taiwan-swimming-bio-stub