| Marilyn Chua | |
| Fullname: | Marilyn Chua Yu Ching |
| Strokes: | Freestyle |
| Coach: | Cyndi Gallagher (U.S.) |
| Collegeteam: | University of California, Los Angeles (U.S.) |
| Birth Date: | 25 August 1980 |
| Birth Place: | Selangor, Malaysia |
| Height: | 1.630NaN0 |
| Weight: | 620NaN0 |
| Show-Medals: | yes |
Marilyn Chua Yu Ching (born 25 August 1980) is a Malaysian former swimmer, who specialised in sprint freestyle events.[1] Chua represented Malaysia, as a 20-year-old, at the 2000 Summer Olympics, and formerly held a Malaysian record in the 50 m freestyle, before it was eventually broken by Cindy Ong in 2004.[2] Chua also attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where she majored in international development studies and swam for the UCLA Bruins, under head coach Cyndi Gallagher.[3] [4]
Chua competed only in the women's 50 m freestyle at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She achieved a FINA B-cut of 27.16 from the Janet Evans Invitational in Los Angeles, California.[5] [6] She challenged seven other swimmers in heat four, including Russian import Yekaterina Tochenaya of Kyrgyzstan, and Yugoslavia's two-time Olympian Duška Radan. Chua faded down the stretch to a third seed in 27.66, exactly half a second (0.50) below her national record and an entry standard, and 0.78 seconds off a leading time set by Tochenaya. Chua failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed fifty-second overall out of 74 swimmers in the prelims.[7] [8] [9]