In this Burmese name, the given name is Moe Thu Aung. There is no family name.
Moe Thu Aung
Personal information
Full name
Moe Thu Aung
National team
Myanmar
Born
(1981-06-10) 10 June 1981 (age 42) Yangon, Myanmar
Height
1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight
53 kg (117 lb)
Sport
Sport
Swimming
Strokes
Freestyle, butterfly
Club
MLC Marlins (AUS)
Coach
John Bladon (AUS)
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing Myanmar
Southeast Asian Games
2001 Kuala Lumpur
50 m freestyle
2001 Kuala Lumpur
100 m freestyle
2001 Kuala Lumpur
100 m butterfly
2003 Hanoi
50 m freestyle
2003 Hanoi
100 m freestyle
2003 Hanoi
100 m butterfly
2005 Manila
100 m butterfly
2005 Manila
50 m freestyle
2005 Manila
100 m freestyle
2005 Manila
200 m freestyle
Moe Thu Aung (born 10 June 1981) is a Burmese former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle and butterfly events.[1] Aung represented Myanmar at the 2000 Summer Olympics, received a total of ten medals (one gold, six silver, and three bronze) from all editions of the Southeast Asian Games since 2001, and later became a top 8 finalist in a sprint freestyle double at the 2002 Asian Games. During her sporting career, she swam and trained for the MLC School's swimming club, also known as MLC Marlins, under an Australian-based coach John Bladon.[2]
Aung competed only in the women's 50 m freestyle at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.[3] She received a ticket from FINA, under a Universality program, without meeting an entry time.[4] She participated in heat one against two other swimmers, 12-year-old Fatema Hameed Gerashi of Bahrain and Paula Barila Bolopa of Equatorial Guinea. Aung pulled away from a small field to an unexpected triumph in a new Burmese record of 26.80, finishing farther ahead of Gerashi, who was later disqualified from the race for a no false-start rule attempt, and Bolopa, who posted the event's slowest time in Olympic history (1:03.97).[5][6] Aung's surprising reward was not enough to put her through to the semifinals, as she placed thirty-ninth overall out of 74 swimmers in the prelims.[7][8]
At the 2001 Southeast Asian Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Aung edged out Singapore's top favorite Joscelin Yeo by seven hundredths of a second (0.07) to capture the 50 m freestyle title in 26.34, adding it to two other silver medals from her hardware in the 100 m freestyle (57.61) and in the 100 m butterfly (1:01.76).[9][10]
At the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea, Aung failed to medal in any of her individual events, finishing seventh each in the 50 m freestyle (26.72) and in the 100 m freestyle (58.01).[11][12]
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^"Marlins' Head Coach John Bladon appointed Head Coach of the Union of Myanmar swimming team". MLC School. October 2003. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
^"Myanmar's Olympic hope: women". News24. 29 August 2000. Retrieved 24 June 2013.
^"Swimming – Women's 50m Freestyle Startlist (Heat 1)" (PDF). Sydney 2000. Omega Timing. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
^Johnson, Martin (23 September 2000). "Swimming: Next to Paula Eric the Eel is electric". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
^"Arab women make breakthrough at Games". Sports Illustrated. CNN. 23 September 2000. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
^"Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 50m Freestyle Heat 1" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 164. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 August 2011. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
^"Results from the Summer Olympics – Swimming (Women's 50m Freestyle)". Canoe.ca. Archived from the original on 15 June 2013. Retrieved 14 June 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^"Malaysian, Filipino win big". Sports Illustrated. CNN. 13 September 2001. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
^"Indonesia suffers medals drought". Jakarta: The Jakarta Post. 14 September 2001. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
^"China and Japan Share the Gold on Day 5 of Asian Games; China's Wu and Xu Shine". Swimming World Magazine. 4 October 2002. Archived from the original on 28 December 2013. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
^"Japan's Kitajima Breaks Barrowman's 200m Breaststroke World Record; Cracks 2:10 Barrier". Swimming World Magazine. 2 October 2002. Archived from the original on 13 February 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
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