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Lew Yih Wey
Personal information
Full nameLew Yih Wey
National team Malaysia
Born (1991-06-27) 27 June 1991 (age 33)
Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia
Height1.56 m (5 ft 1 in)
Weight50 kg (110 lb)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesFreestyle, backstroke, medley
ClubKelab Paroi Negeri Sembilan
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing Malaysia
Southeast Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 2007 Korat 200 m backstroke
Bronze medal – third place 2007 Korat 800 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2007 Korat 400 m medley
Bronze medal – third place 2007 Korat 4×200 m freestyle

Lew Yih Wey (born 27 June 1991) is a Malaysian swimmer, who specialised in long-distance freestyle, backstroke, and individual medley events. She represented her nation Malaysia at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has won a career total of four medals (one gold and three bronze) in a major international competition, spanning the 2007 Southeast Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand.

Lew competed for the Malaysian swimming team in the women's 400 m individual medley at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Three months before the Games, she produced a record-breaking effort and cleared a FINA B-cut of 4:50.52 to earn her Olympic debut at the Malaysian Open Championships in Bukit Jalil. Her winning time from the meet also erased the national mark of 4:51.01, set by Siow Yi Ting at the 2003 Southeast Asian Games in Hanoi, Vietnam. Swimming as the fastest entrant in heat one, Lew attempted to chase Singapore's Quah Ting Wen and 2004 Olympic finalist Nam Yoo-sun of South Korea at the final turn of the race, but could not catch them near the wall to finish only with a third-place time and thirty-fourth overall in 4:55.83, just more than five seconds outside her national record.

References

  1. ^ "Lew Yih Wey". Beijing 2008. Archived from the original on 3 June 2009. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
  2. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Lew Yih Wey". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 1 December 2012.
  3. "Lew Yih Wey snatches women's 200m backstroke gold at SEA Games". People's Daily. 7 December 2007. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
  4. Lim, Teik Huat (2 May 2008). "Swimming: Yih Wey makes cut". The Star. Malaysia. Archived from the original on 4 June 2008. Retrieved 1 December 2012.
  5. "Swimmer Yih Wey makes it to Beijing". The Malaysian Insider. 2 May 2008. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 1 December 2012.
  6. "Swimming: Women's 400m Individual Medley – Heat 1". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 25 August 2012. Retrieved 1 December 2012.
  7. "Game over as Yih Wey sinks in the pool". The Star. Malaysia. 10 August 2008. Retrieved 1 December 2012.

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