Vilayphone Vongphachanh

Vilayphone Vongphachanh (born April 26, 1989) is a female Laotian Olympic freestyle swimmer. [http://216.109.126.241/olympics/torino2006/lao/vilayphone+vongphachanh/367973 "Turin 2006 Winter Olympics, Vilayphone Vongphachanh - - Yahoo! Sports"] , "Yahoo!"; URL accessed May 23, 2006.] As a member of the Laos team she competed at the age of 15 in the 2004 Summer Olympics in the Women's 50m Freestyle. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics_2004/swimming/results/3535060.stm "Women's 50m freestyle results"] , "BBC News", August 21, 2004.]

She had the slowest time out of all 73 women in the event.Her result was typical for Laos, which up to the 2004 games, has (with one exception) always placed last or next to last in every event it has competed in.Macy, Sue, [http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2004/edition_08-08-2004/featured_1?prnt=1 "Make The Olympics A Family Affair"] , "Parade", August 8, 2004] In Laos, she was only able to train in a pool half the size of a standard Olympic size swimming pool, and like other Laotian athletes had limited times to do so. Sue Maci of "Parade" attributed the poor results to Laos being one of the ten poorest countries in the world.

Previously, in 2003, she competed in the 10th FINA World Championships in Barcelona. [http://www.polswim.pl/arch/Book_All_Results.pdf "10th FINA World Championships: BARCELONA 2003 (PDF)"] , originally published by "FINA" and hosted by the "Polish Swimming Federation" (at polswim.pl); URL accessed May 23, 2006.] [http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/results/published/2554.asp "2003 FINA World Championships Day 7 Prelims "] , "Swimming World magazine", July 26, 2003.] She ranked 98 out of 100 (finishers) in the 50m freestyle, and 57 out of 58 in the 50m breaststroke.

As of 2006 Vilayphone Vongphachanh is a swimming judge for the FINA Masters [ [http://www.fina.org/main/officials/officials_M_7.htm "FINA masters officials - list no 7 (1.7.05 - 31.12.08)"] , "FINA"; URL accessed May 24, 2006.]

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