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(Redirected from Vilayphone) Laotian swimmer
Vilayphone Vongphachanh
Personal information
Nationality Laos
Born (1989-04-26) April 26, 1989 (age 35)
Laos
Height1.55 m (5 ft 1 in)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesFreestyle

Vilayphone Vongphachanh (born April 26, 1989) is a female Laotian Olympic freestyle swimmer. As a member of the Laos team she competed at the age of 15 in the 2004 Summer Olympics in the Women's 50m Freestyle. She also swam at the 2008 Olympics.

In 2004, she had the slowest time out of all 73 women in the event, 36.57 seconds. Her result was typical for Laos, which up to the 2004 games, has (with one exception) always placed last or next to last in every event it has competed in. In Laos, she was only able to train in a pool half the size of a standard Olympic size swimming pool, and like other Laotian athletes had limited times to do so. Sue Maci of Parade attributed the poor results to Laos being one of the ten poorest countries in the world.

Previously, in 2003, she competed in the 2003 World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. She ranked 98 out of 100 (finishers) in the 50m freestyle, and 57 out of 58 in the 50m breaststroke.

As of 2006 Vilayphone Vongphachanh is a swimming judge for the FINA Masters

In 2008, she finished 84th out of 92 swimmers with a time of 34.79 seconds, once again, she failed to qualify for the semi-finals.

References

  1. ^ "Turin 2006 Winter Olympics, Vilayphone Vongphachanh - - Yahoo! Sports", Yahoo!; URL accessed May 23, 2006.
  2. ^ "Women's 50m freestyle results", BBC News, August 21, 2004.
  3. ^ Macy, Sue, "Make The Olympics A Family Affair" Archived September 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, Parade, August 8, 2004
  4. ^ "10th FINA World Championships: BARCELONA 2003 (PDF)", originally published by FINA and hosted by the Polish Swimming Federation (at polswim.pl); URL accessed May 23, 2006.
  5. ^ "2003 FINA World Championships Day 7 Prelims ", Swimming World magazine, July 26, 2003.
  6. "FINA masters officials - list no 7 (1.7.05 - 31.12.08)" Archived June 30, 2006, at the Wayback Machine, FINA; URL accessed May 24, 2006.

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