Marina Chan

Quick Facts

Full Name	Marina Chan
Occupation	Swimmer
Date Of Birth	Dec 24, 1997(1997-12-24)
Age	27
Country	Singapore
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Marina Chan Biography

Marina Chan is one of the most popular and richest Swimmer who was born on December 24, 1997 in Singapore. Marina Chan (born Nur Marina Chan Si Min Alif Abdullah on 24 December 1997) is a Singaporean freestyle and butterfly swimmer. Coming from a renowned swim family Chan began her swimming career during her freshman year in high school. Chan has represented her nation at her country’s FINA World Cup Asian Games, Asian Swimming Championships, Commonwealth Games, Youth Olympic Games and the Asian Youth Games with her desire to win gold during the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

On June 12, 2012 Chan claimed her first gold medal in the first Southeast Asian Swimming Championships in Singapore. With Koh Hui Yu Amanda Lim and Teo Jing Wen, the group took home gold and set the world’s first Championship record for the 200-metre freestyle relay. A little over one month later, at the 2012 ASEAN School Games in Surabaya, Indonesia, Chan was one of four athletes that carried off the 4 x 100-metre freestyle relay. The time was 3:56.55 This cut 0.69 seconds from the national under-17’s record, and was just a hair short of the record set by Thailand’s meet team of 3:56.14. Chan also clinched bronze in the 800-metre freestyle, with the clock stopping at 9:15.12.

Two weeks later at the 2014 Southeast Asian Swimming Championships in Singapore, Chan won gold in the 50-metre butterfly in a new championship record and personal best time of 27.49. Chan also won six silver medals and set a new personal best of 1:01.67 in the 100-metre butterfly. One month later at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, Chan competed in six events before heading to the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing in August where she reached the semi-finals 50-metre butterfly and the 50-metre freestyle. In September, Chan competed at 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, where in the final of 50-metre freestyle she achieved a new personal best time of 25.91, breaking the 26-second barrier for the first time.

Chan started 2014 by claiming three individual gold medals and a silver at the 2014 Southeast Asian Age Group Swimming Championships in Singapore. Swimming in the 14–16 aged group, Chan won the 100-metre freestyle in 56.87 and the 50-metre butterfly in 27.91, both new championship record and personal best times. She also took out the 50-metre freestyle in 26.31 narrowly missing the championship record of 26.28 set by Thailand’s Jenjira Srisaard in 2012. Chan won her silver medal in the 200-metre freestyle. Finishing 2.12 seconds behind Vietnam’s Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên, Chan stopped the clock at 2:04.44 inside the old championship record of 2:04.65 set by Benjaporn Sriphanomthorn of Thailand in 2011. Chan was also part of a Thailand clean sweep, taking out all three female relays in new championship record times. In the 4 × 100-metre freestyle Chan, Rachel Tseng, Christie Chue and Hannah Quek recorded a time of 3:54.66. This also broke national under 17’s record by one hundredth of a second. In the 4 × 200-metre freestyle, Chan, Tseng, Chue and Jing Wen Quah smashed the meet record by over 9 seconds, lowering it to 8:30.84 and in the final event of the meet Chan with Tseng, Chue and Tan Jing-E just got home over Thailand in the 4 × 100-metre medley relay, posting a time of 4:20.25. This time also shaved 0.12 seconds off the under 17’s record.

In the Tokyo portion in the 2012 FINA Swimming World Cupin Tokyo, Chan made a record-setting personal best in the 50m freestyle, which was 26.46 seconds. The eighth and final stage at Singapore, Chan covered the distance in 26.45 and set an all-time personal record by 0.01 seconds, beating the time she had set just four days earlier.

Marina Chan Net Worth

Marina Chan is one of the richest Swimmer from Singapore. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Marina Chan 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Chan was selected first to represent her country in the Singaporean stage of 2010’s FINA Swimming World Cup in which at just 12 years old, she participated at four different events. The following year, in July, Chan set her first record for national records under 17’s in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay during the ASEAN School Games and finished the year with a performance at the Stockholm, Moscow, Berlin and Singapore stages of the 2011 FINA Swimming World Cup.

In addition to gaining invaluable experience taking part at the Dubai Asian Swimming Championships in December 2012, Chan won four silver medals at the 2013 Asian Youth Games in Nanjing. In the individual events, she finished second at the 50-metre as well as the 100 metre freestyle events. Then, she teamed up with Samantha Yeo, Stacy Tan and Meagan Lim to place second in the 4x 100-metre medley relay. In the freestyle 4 x 100-metre relay Chan along with Yeo, Hoong En Qi and Rachel Tseng set a record for the national record for 17-year-olds surpassing that record’s previous time with 1.88 seconds.

In July 2014, Chan was one of the 300 athletes to receive the Singapore Olympic Foundation Peter Lim Scholarship. Launched in 2010, the scholarship aims to provide financial assistance to outstanding young athletes from financially challenged backgrounds to facilitate their pursuit in sports excellence. Upon receiving the award Chan stated that she will use it to focus towards how she is able to improve her training. “So with that financial help, I’ll be able to go overseas for training camps. That is the type of support I need to push myself further.”

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Facts & Trivia

Marina Ranked on the list of most popular Swimmer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Singapore. Marina Chan celebrates birthday on December 24 of every year.

Top Facts about Marina Chan

1. Marina Chan is a Singaporean swimmer.
2. She specializes in breaststroke and freestyle events.
3. Chan has represented Singapore at international competitions.
4. She won a bronze medal at the 2017 Southeast Asian Games.
5. Chan holds multiple national records in swimming.
6. She trains with the Swimfast Aquatic Club in Singapore.
7. Chan is a student-athlete at Stanford University in California, USA.
8. She was named to the All-Pac-12 First Team for swimming in 2020.
9. Chan competed at the 2019 World University Games in Italy.
10. Her personal best times include 1:08:56 (100m breaststroke) and 2:28:05 (200m breaststroke).