Tsai Shu-min

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Tsai Shu-min
Personal information
Full nameTsai Shu-min
National team 
backstroke, medley
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing Chinese Taipei
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 1998 Bangkok 200 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 1998 Bangkok 400 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 1998 Bangkok 4×100 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 1998 Bangkok 4×200 m freestyle

Tsai Shu-min (

Bangkok, Thailand
.

Tsai made her first Chinese Taipei team, as a 15-year-old teen, at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. There, she failed to reach the top 16 final in any of her individual events, finishing fortieth in the 100 m freestyle (58.65), thirty-fourth in the 100 m backstroke (1:11.44), and forty-first in the 200 m individual medley (2:28.71).[2][3][4] A member of the Chinese Taipei team, she placed eighteenth in the 4×100 m freestyle relay (3:56.39), nineteenth in the 4×200 m freestyle relay (8:27.61), and twenty-fourth in the 4×100 m medley relay (4:38.90).[5][6][7]

Two years later, at the

Bangkok, Thailand with a sterling time of 2:00.89, adding it to three bronze medals from her hardware each in the 400 m freestyle (4:15.66), 4×100 m freestyle relay (3:51.42), and 4×200 m freestyle relay (8:18.92).[9][10]

At the

FINA B-standards of 57.83 (100 m freestyle) and 2:03.33 (200 m freestyle) from the National University Games in Taipei.[11][12] On the third day of the Games, Tsai placed thirty-second in the 200 m freestyle. Swimming in heat three, she faded down the stretch to pick up a seventh seed in 2:06.12, more than three seconds below her entry standard.[13][14] Two days later, in the 100 m freestyle, Tsai posted a time of 59.39 to overhaul a minute barrier in the same heat, but fell short to forty-sixth overall on the morning prelims.[15][16]

References

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