Nieh Pin-chieh

Nieh Pin-chieh (Chinese: 聶品潔; pinyin: Niè Pǐnjié; born June 12, 1988) is a Taiwanese swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.[1] She represented the Chinese Taipei national team in two editions of the Olympic Games (2004 and 2008), competing in a sprint freestyle double.

Nieh Pin-chieh
Personal information
Full nameNieh Pin-chieh
National team Chinese Taipei
Born (1988-06-12) 12 June 1988
Taipei, Taiwan
Height1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight61 kg (134 lb)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesFreestyle
In this Chinese name, the family name is Nie.

Nieh made her own swimming history, as a 16-year-old teen, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, 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 Vanessa García by more than a second. Furthermore, Nieh tied for forty-first overall with Hungary's Zsuzsanna Csobánki in the prelims.[2][3]

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Nieh qualified for her second Chinese Taipei team in the 100 m freestyle. She attained a FINA-B cut of 57.02 seconds from the National Games in her native Taipei a year earlier.[4] 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 Christel Simms 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.[5][6]

References
  1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Nieh Pin-Chieh". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
  2. "Women's 50m Freestyle Heat 5". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 19 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  3. Thomas, Stephen (18 August 2004). "Women's 50 Freestyle, Prelims Day 7: Inky Sizzles in World Best 24.66, Joyce Next in PR 25.06, Jenny Thompson Makes It Too". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
  4. "Olympic Cut Sheet – Women's 100m Freestyle" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 48. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  5. "Women's 100m Freestyle – Heat 2". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
  6. "聶品潔 今年最佳 許志傑 晉16耀眼" [Nieh Pin-chieh eliminated, Hsu Chi-chieh finished sixteenth this year] (in Chinese). Taiwan: Apple Daily. 14 August 2008. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
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