Pilin Tachakittiranan

Pilin Tachakittiranan

Personal information
Full name	Pilin Tachakittiranan
National team	Thailand
Born	14 June 1983 Bangkok, Thailand
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	60 kg (132 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle, butterfly
Medal record Women's swimming Representing Thailand Southeast Asian Games 2003 Hanoi 200 m freestyle 2003 Hanoi 400 m freestyle 2003 Hanoi 800 m freestyle 2005 Manila 400 m freestyle 2005 Manila 4×200 m freestyle 2003 Hanoi 200 m butterfly

Pilin Tachakittiranan (Thai: ไพลิน เตชะกฤตธีระนันท์; born June 14, 1983) is a Thai former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events.^[1] She is a two-time Olympian (2000 and 2004) and a multiple-time age-group record holder in all freestyle distances (except 1500 m). Regarded as Thailand's top female swimmer, she has won a total of five gold medals at the Southeast Asian Games (2003 and 2005).

Tachakittiranan made her first Thai team, as a 17-year-old teen, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. There, she failed to advance into the succeeding round in any of her individual events, finishing forty-fifth in the 50 m freestyle (27.31), thirtieth in the 200 m freestyle (2:05.88), and thirty-ninth each in the 100 m freestyle (58.69) and 400 m freestyle (4:29.28).^[2][3][4][5]

At the 2003 Southeast Asian Games in Hanoi, Vietnam, Tachakittiranan dominated the pool for Thailand by claiming a total of three gold medals in the 200, 400, and 800 m freestyle.^[6][7]

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Tachakittiranan shortened her swimming program, focusing only on the 200 and 400 m freestyle. She posted FINA B-standard entry times of 2:06.19 (200 m freestyle) and 4:21.67 (400 m freestyle) from the SEA Games.^[8][9] On the second day of the Games, Tachakittiranan placed thirty-fourth overall in the 400 m freestyle. Swimming in heat one, she picked up a third seed by nearly two seconds behind winner Paola Duguet of Colombia in 4:23.62.^[10][11] In her second event, 200 m freestyle, Tachakittiranan ended her Olympic run with a thirty-fifth-place effort from the preliminaries. She posted a lifetime best of 2:05.29 to lead the first heat against Chinese Taipei's Yang Chin-Kuei and Kazakhstan's Yuliya Rissik.^[12][13]

References

1. "Pilin Tachakittiranan". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
2. "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 50m Freestyle Heat 5" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 165. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
3. "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 100m Freestyle Heat 2" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 174. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
4. "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 200m Freestyle Heat 3" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 183. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
5. "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 400m Freestyle Heat 2" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 189. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
6. "Yeo, Sirisanont and Lim Lead Southeast Asian Games With Three Gold Medals Apiece". Swimming World Magazine. 9 December 2003. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
7. "Thailand Continues to Dominate Southeast Asian Games". Swimming World Magazine. 10 December 2003. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
8. "Swimming – Women's 200m Freestyle Startlist (Heat 1)" (PDF). Athens 2004. Omega Timing. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
9. "Swimming – Women's 400m Freestyle Startlist (Heat 1)" (PDF). Athens 2004. Omega Timing. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
10. "Women's 400m Freestyle Heat 1". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
11. Thomas, Stephen (15 August 2004). "Women's 400 Freestyle Prelims: France's Manaudou Powers to 4:06.76 to Lead a Fast, Wide-Open Field for the Final". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
12. "Women's 200m Freestyle Heat 1". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 16 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
13. Thomas, Stephen (16 August 2004). "Women's 200 Freestyle, Prelims Day 3: Dana Vollmer Stakes Her Claim as Fastest Qualifier, Benko Also Through to Evening Round". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 26 April 2013.