Wu Nien-pin
Wu Nien-pin is a Taiwanese former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and medley events. He is a two-time Olympian, and a seventh-place finalist in the 100 m freestyle at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea. A graduate of information engineering at National Taiwan University in Taipei, Wu also trained full-time for the university's swimming squad.
Wu made his Olympic debut, as a 17-year-old teen, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He failed to reach the top 16 in any of his individual events, finishing fifty-fifth in the 100 m freestyle, thirty-eighth in the 200 m freestyle, and forty-fourth in the 200 m individual medley.
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Wu swam only in two events with one day in between. He posted FINA B-standard entry times of 52.03 and 2:08.12 from the National University Games in Taipei. On the fifth day of the Games, Wu placed fifty-fourth in the 100 m freestyle. He edged out Singapore's Mark Chay to take a seventh spot in heat three by a quarter of a second in 52.58. The following day, Wu managed to repeat a forty-fourth-place effort in the 200 m individual medley. Swimming in heat two, Wu saved a sixth spot over Turkey's Orel Oral by 0.12 of a second in 2:08.72.
