Chonlathorn Vorathamrong, Date of Birth

    

Chonlathorn Vorathamrong

Olympic swimmer

Date of Birth: 08-Sep-1980

Profession: swimmer

Nationality: Thailand

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Chonlathorn Vorathamrong

  • Chonlathorn Vorathamrong (Thai: ???? ??????; born September 8, 1980) is a Thai former swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events.
  • She is a two-time Olympian (2000 and 2004) and a six-time medalist at the Southeast Asian Games (2001, 2003, and 2005). Vorathamrong made her first Thai team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
  • There, she failed to reach the semifinals in any of her individual events, finishing thirty-fifth in the 100 m backstroke (1:05.98), and thirty-second in the 200 m backstroke (2:21.59).At the 2003 Southeast Asian Games in Hanoi, Vietnam, Vorathamrong won a total of two gold medals in the 100 m backstroke (1:05.47), and 200 m backstroke (2:19.11).At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Vorathamrong maintained her program, competing again in the 100 and 200 m backstroke.
  • She posted FINA B-standard entry times of 1:05.47 (100 m backstroke) and 2:19.11 (200 m backstroke) from the SEA Games.
  • In the 100 m backstroke, Vorathamrong challenged six other swimmers in heat two, including 14-year-olds Anastassiya Prilepa of Kazakhstan and Olga Gnedovskaya of Uzbekistan.
  • She posted a lifetime best of 1:05.15 to take a second spot and thirty-second overall by 0.23 of a second ahead of Turkey's Derya Erke.
  • In the 200 m backstroke, Vorathamrong placed twenty-ninth overall from the morning's preliminaries.
  • Swimming in the same heat as her first, she raced to seventh place by a 7.04-second margin behind winner Evelyn Verrasztó of Hungary, in a time of 2:21.11.

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