Pang Jiaying

Pang Jiaying

Personal information
Full name	Pang Jiaying
Nationality	China
Born	(1985-01-06) January 6, 1985 (age 32) Shanghai, China
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	58 kg (128 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle
Club	Zhejiang
Medal record Women's swimming Representing  China Olympic Games 2004 Athens 4×200 m freestyle 2008 Beijing 4×200 m freestyle 2008 Beijing 4×100 m medley 2008 Beijing 200 m freestyle World Championships (LC) 2009 Rome 4×200 m freestyle 2003 Barcelona 4×200 m freestyle 2005 Montreal 4×200 m freestyle 2011 Shanghai 4×200 m freestyle World Championships (SC) 2010 Dubai 4×200 m freestyle Shanghai 2006 4×200 m freestyle 2010 Dubai 4×100 m freestyle 2012 Istanbul 4×200 m freestyle Summer Universiade 2003 Daegu 4×200 m freestyle 2003 Daegu 4×100 m medley Asian Games 2006 Doha 200 m freestyle 2006 Doha 4×100 m freestyle 2006 Doha 4×200 m freestyle 2006 Doha 4×100 m medley 2006 Doha 50 m freestyle Doha 2006 100 m freestyle

Pang Jiaying (simplified Chinese: 庞佳颖; traditional Chinese: 龐佳穎; pinyin: Páng Jiāyǐng; born January 6, 1985 in Shanghai) is a female Chinese freestyle swimmer who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics, the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics. Pang is one of the best Chinese women in middle and long-distance freestyle swimming.

She won the silver medal as part of the Chinese 4 × 200 m freestyle relay team in Athens. In the 200 metre freestyle competition she finished seventh and in the 400 metre freestyle event she finished 14th.

In 2008, she won the bronze medal in women's 200m freestyle at the Beijing Olympics. She placed first in the semifinal of the women's 100m freestyle, but was disqualified after a false start. Subsequently, the world-record holder and world champion Libby Trickett was promoted from ninth to eighth and last qualifier into the final, as a result of having the 9th fastest time in the semifinals.

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