Anthony Ang
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| Full name | Anthony Ang Kang Keam | ||||||||||||||||||
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 Malaysia
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| Born | 6 December 1978 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Butterfly | ||||||||||||||||||
| College team | Florida State University, University of Minnesota (U.S.) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Kelly Kremer (U.S.) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Anthony Ang Kang Keam (born 6 December 1978) is a Malaysian former swimmer, who specialised in butterfly events. He is a two-time Olympian (1996 and 2000), a double SEA Games titleholder in a butterfly double, a Bolles School graduate, and a member of Florida State University (1998-1999) and University of Minnesota (2000-2002) swimming and diving team while studying in the United States.
Ang accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida for 2 seasons (1998 & 1999) and later joined University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he played for the Minnesota Golden Gophers under head coach Kelly Kremer. In the year 2001 edition of Big Ten Men's Swimming and Diving Championships, he came in first in the 200-yard butterfly (1:44.25) along with rewriting both the varsity and pool record. At the 2001 NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving Championships, he powered home with top finishes, as the only Gopher, in the 100-yard butterfly (49.09) and the 200-yard butterfly (1:46.21).
Ang made his first Malaysian team, as an eighteen-year-old teen, at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. There, he failed to reach the top 16 final in any of his individual events, finishing forty-fifth in the 100 m butterfly (56.41), and thirty-first in the 200 m butterfly (2:04.01). He also placed twentieth, along with his Malaysian teammates Alex Lim, Elvin Chia, and Wan Azlan Abdullah, in the 4 × 100 m medley relay (3:56.24).
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