Ge Chutong
Chinese swimmer (born 2003)
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Ge Chutong (Chinese: 葛楚彤; born 23 September 2003) is a Chinese swimmer. She competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay.
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| Native name | 葛楚彤 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Chinese | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 23 September 2003 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Biography
Ge was born on 23 September 2003 and grew up in Zhifu, Yantai, Shandong, China.[1] She started training as a swimmer under coach Cong Jingjing, at the Yantai Swimming Training Center, during kindergarten.[1] She competed internationally for the first time in 2017, winning a silver medal in the 400m medley at the 9th Asian Age Group Championships, in Uzbekistan.[2] She competed at the national championships in 2018 and 2019, also winning gold at the National Youth Games in the latter year, in the 200m freestyle event.[2][3]
Ge ranked fourth at the 2020 national championships in the 400m medley.[2] She won silver in the event at the 2021 national championships and bronze in the 4 × 200 m relay.[2] She won two medals at the 2021 summer championships and narrowly lost to Yu Yiting at the 2021 National Games of China, in the 400m medley.[4] She represented China at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships in three events, with her best finish being sixth, in the 400m medley.[2][5] Ge won a silver medal at the 2022 national championships and also participated at the 2022 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m).[2]
In 2023, Ge won two silver medals at the spring national championships.[2] She won a bronze medal in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay event at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships and later that year won gold in the same event at the Asian Games.[1][2] In April 2024, she won three medals, including one gold, at the national championships.[2] She was selected to compete for China at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay, where she helped her team win the bronze medal.[6][7]