Camille Cheng

Camille Cheng Lily-mei
Camille Cheng Lily-mei
Traditional Chinese	鄭莉梅
Simplified Chinese	郑莉梅
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Zhèng Lìméi
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping	zeng6 lei6 mui4

Camille Cheng
Personal information
Full name	Camille Cheng Lily-mei
National team	Hong Kong
Born	9 May 1993 (age 31); Hong Kong
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle
College team	University of California, Berkeley
Medal record
Asian Games

Camille Cheng Lily-mei (Chinese: 鄭莉梅; born 9 May 1993) is a Hong Kong competitive swimmer.

She qualified to the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, and was selected to represent Hong Kong in the women's 50 metre freestyle, 100 metre freestyle, 200 metre freestyle, and 4x100 metre medley relay.^[1]

Early life, education and career

Born on 9 May 1993 in Hong Kong to a Taiwanese father Cheng Wong-ping and French mother Catherine. She speaks French, English and Mandarin.^[2] She went to French International School until the age of nine, when her family moved to Beijing for her father's engineering job.^[3] She attended the International School of Beijing.^[2]

She swam for the University of California, Berkeley, team under Olympic coach Teri McKeever and alongside the already Olympian medalist Sara Isaković. She became joint captain in her final year before graduating university with a degree in Psychology. Cheng took Bronze at the Asian Games in 2014. In December 2015, Cheng made an Olympic A time (which guarantees a place) at the United States National Championships in 200 metre freestyle. She became one of three Hong Kong women to have ever made an A time.^[3]

Competition Rankings

Year	Competition	Location	Ranking	Race
2013	Universiade	Kazan	8th	4 × 200 m freestyle
2014	Asian Games	Incheon	7th ^[4]	200 m freestyle
			6th	100 m freestyle
			3rd	4 × 200 m freestyle
			3rd	4 × 100 m freestyle
	Pan Pacific Championships	Gold Coast	8th	100 m freestyle
			7th	4 × 100 m freestyle
			6th	4 × 200 m freestyle
			6th	4 × 100 m 4 strokes
2015	World Championships	Kazan	32nd	100 m freestyle
2016	Summer Olympics^[5]	Rio de Janeiro	44th	50 m freestyle
			24th	100 m freestyle
			29th	200 m freestyle
2018	Asian Games^[6]	Jakarta	5th	100 m freestyle
			6th	200 m freestyle
			3rd	4 × 100 m freestyle
			3rd	4 × 200 m freestyle
			2nd	4 × 100 m women's 4 strokes
2019	World Championships^[7]	Gwangju	10th	4 × 100 m freestyle
2019	World Championships^[7]	Gwangju	11th	4 × 200 m freestyle

Personal bests

Long course 50 m ^[8]
Race	Time	Location	Date
50 m freestyle	25 s 74	TYR Pro Swim Series	7 March 2020
100 m freestyle	54 s 86	Austin	15 January 2016
200 m freestyle	1 min 58 s 78	Federal Way	4 December 2015
400 m freestyle	4 min 24 s 4	Minneapolis	13 November 2015
100 m freestyle (lap)	54 s 37	Rio de Janeiro	12 August 2016
200 m freestyle (lap)	2 min 00 s 85	Jakarta	21 August 2018
50 m butterfly	28 s 74	2021-22 Div.1 Age Group LC Swimming Comp P2	30 May 2021
100 m butterfly	1 min 02 s 94	Los Angeles	20 July 2014

Short course 25 m ^[8]
Race	Time	Location	Date
50 m freestyle	25 s 68	Hong Kong	30 September 2017
100 m freestyle	54 s 78	Hong Kong	1 October 2017
200 m freestyle	2 min 00 s 09	Hong Kong	30 September 2017

References

^ "Camille Cheng". rio2016.com. Archived from the original on 6 August 2016. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
^ ^a ^b "Camille Cheng." Swim Swam. Retrieved 2017-06-14.
^ ^a ^b "Road to Rio: How Hong Kong swim star Camille Cheng went from Olympic spectator to competitor." James Porteous. South China Morning Post. Alibaba. 13 May 2016. Retrieved 2017-06-14.
^ "Camille Cheng - Women's Swimming & Diving". University of California Golden Bears Athletics. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
^ "Camille Cheng - Results". Olympedia. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
^ Careem, Nazvi (19 August 2018). "Asian Games: Hong Kong swimmers win bronze in women's 4x100m freestyle relay". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
^ Yen, Ruey (26 July 2019). "Cal Bears at 2019 FINA World Championships update: 5 relay, 1 team, and 1 individual medals". California Golden Blogs. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Swimrankings - CHENG, Camille Lily Mei". Swim Rankings. Retrieved 16 August 2020.

External links

CHENG Camille Lily Mei at World Aquatics
CHENG Camille Lily Mei at SwimRankings.net
CHENG Camille Lily Mei at Olympics.com
CHENG Camille Lily Mei at Olympedia

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[1] "Camille Cheng". rio2016.com. Archived from the original on 6 August 2016. Retrieved 7 August 2016.

[SwimSwam-2] "Camille Cheng." Swim Swam. Retrieved 2017-06-14.

[Road-3] "Road to Rio: How Hong Kong swim star Camille Cheng went from Olympic spectator to competitor." James Porteous. South China Morning Post. Alibaba. 13 May 2016. Retrieved 2017-06-14.

[incheon-4] "Camille Cheng - Women's Swimming & Diving". University of California Golden Bears Athletics. Retrieved 16 August 2020.

[rio-5] "Camille Cheng - Results". Olympedia. Retrieved 16 August 2020.

[scmp-6] Careem, Nazvi (19 August 2018). "Asian Games: Hong Kong swimmers win bronze in women's 4x100m freestyle relay". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 16 August 2020.

[calibears-7] Yen, Ruey (26 July 2019). "Cal Bears at 2019 FINA World Championships update: 5 relay, 1 team, and 1 individual medals". California Golden Blogs. Retrieved 16 August 2020.

[score15-8] "Swimrankings - CHENG, Camille Lily Mei". Swim Rankings. Retrieved 16 August 2020.

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