Pilin Tachakittiranan ( th, ไพลิน เตชะกฤตธีระนันท์; born June 14, 1983) is a Thai former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events. She is a two-time Olympian (2000 and 2004) and a multiple-time age-group record holder in all freestyle distances (except 1500 m). Regarded as Thailand's top female swimmer, she has won a total of five gold medals at the Southeast Asian Games (2003 and 2005). Tachakittiranan made her first Thai team, as a 17-year-old teen, at the

2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 ...

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. There, she failed to advance into the succeeding round in any of her individual events, finishing forty-fifth in the

50 m freestyle 5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. It has attained significance throughout history in part because typical humans have five digits on eac ...

(27.31), thirtieth in the 200 m freestyle (2:05.88), and thirty-ninth each in the

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(58.69) and

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(4:29.28). At the

2003 Southeast Asian Games The 2003 Southeast Asian Games ( vi, Đại hội Thể thao Đông Nam Á 2003), officially known as the 22nd Southeast Asian Games and also known as Vietnam 2003, was a Southeast Asian multi-sport event held from 5 to 13 December 2003 in Hano ...

in Hanoi, Vietnam, Tachakittiranan dominated the pool for Thailand by claiming a total of three gold medals in the 200, 400, and 800 m freestyle. At the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

in Athens, Tachakittiranan shortened her swimming program, focusing only on the 200 and 400 m freestyle. She posted FINA B-standard entry times of 2:06.19 (200 m freestyle) and 4:21.67 (400 m freestyle) from the SEA Games. On the second day of the Games, Tachakittiranan placed thirty-fourth overall in the

. Swimming in heat one, she picked up a third seed by nearly two seconds behind winner Paola Duguet of Colombia in 4:23.62. In her second event, 200 m freestyle, Tachakittiranan ended her Olympic run with a thirty-fifth-place effort from the preliminaries. She posted a lifetime best of 2:05.29 to lead the first heat against Chinese Taipei's Yang Chin-Kuei and Kazakhstan's Yuliya Rissik.

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1983 births Living people Pilin Tachakittiranan Pilin Tachakittiranan Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2002 Asian Games Swimmers at the 2006 Asian Games Pilin Tachakittiranan Female butterfly swimmers SEA Games medalists in swimming Pilin Tachakittiranan Pilin Tachakittiranan Competitors at the 2003 SEA Games Competitors at the 2005 SEA Games Pilin Tachakittiranan Pilin Tachakittiranan Pilin Tachakittiranan {{Thailand-swimming-bio-stub