Christophe Lim Wen Ying (born October 17, 1981) is a Mauritian former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. Lim competed for

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in the men's 100 m freestyle at the

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. He received a Universality place from

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, in an entry time of 54.14. He challenged six other swimmers in heat two, including 15-year-olds Ragi Edde of Lebanon and Dawood Youssef of Bahrain. He raced to a third-place finish in 54.33, just 0.19 seconds below his entry standard and 0.78 behind leader

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of Côte d'Ivoire. Lim failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed sixty-sixth overall in the prelims. He also has 3 children, 1 who is a very fast swimmer and dominates Western Australian Swimming.

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* 1981 births Living people Mauritian male freestyle swimmers Olympic swimmers for Mauritius Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games competitors for Mauritius Swimmers at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Mauritian people of Chinese descent {{Mauritius-swimming-bio-stub