Angela Chuck
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| Full name | Angela Dawn Chuck | |||||||||||||||
| National team |
 Jamaica | |||||||||||||||
| Born |
14 February 1981 Kingston, Jamaica | |||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||||
| Weight | 66 kg (146 lb) | |||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Angela Dawn Chuck (born February 14, 1981) is a Jamaican former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.[1] She won a total of two medals, gold in the 200 m freestyle (2:07.81), and bronze in the 100 m freestyle (58.91), at the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador, El Salvador.[2] Chuck is a two-time Olympian (2000 and 2004) and a psychology graduate of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.[3]
Chuck made her first Jamaican team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she competed in the women's 50 m freestyle. Swimming in heat four, she picked up a second spot and forty-ninth overall by 0.60 of a second behind leader Yekaterina Tochenaya of Kazakhstan in 27.48.[4]
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Chuck qualified for the 100 m freestyle, by posting a FINA B-standard entry time of 57.59 from the Caribbean Championships in Kingston.[5][6] She challenged seven other swimmers on the third heat, including Olympic veterans Dominique Diezi of Switzerland and Lara Heinz of Luxembourg. She edged out Iceland's Ragnheiður Ragnarsdóttir to take a seventh spot by 0.14 of a second, outside her entry time of 58.33. Chuck failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed thirty-ninth overall in the preliminaries.[7][8]
Shortly after her second Olympics, Chuck retired from swimming to work as an assistant coach for the Blue Devils at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.[3]
References
- ↑ "Angela Chuck". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
- ↑ Luton, Dariane (26 November 2002). "Chuck mines gold at CAC". Jamaica Gleaner. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
- 1 2 Thompson, Shelley-Anne (5 September 2005). "Jamaican is new assistant coach for Duke University Swim Team". Jamaica Gleaner. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
- ↑ "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 50m Freestyle Heat 4" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 165. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
- ↑ "Swimming – Women's 100m Freestyle Startlist (Heat 2)" (PDF). Athens 2004. Omega Timing. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
- ↑ "Caribbean Island Swimming Championships – Day Two". Swimming World Magazine. 4 July 2004. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
- ↑ "Women's 100m Freestyle Heat 3". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 18 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
- ↑ Thomas, Stephen (18 August 2004). "Women's 100 Freestyle Prelims, Day 5: Inky Leads the Pack with a Swift 54.43". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 19 April 2013.