Arwut Chinnapasaen

Arwut Chinnapasaen

OLY

Personal information
Full name	Arwut Chinnapasaen
National team	Thailand
Born	(1980-12-03) 3 December 1980 Bangkok, Thailand
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	75 kg (165 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle
Medal record Men's swimming Representing Thailand Southeast Asian Games Gold medal – first place 2003 Hanoi 50 m freestyle Gold medal – first place 2005 Manila 50 m freestyle Silver medal – second place 2001 Kuala Lumpur 50 m freestyle Silver medal – second place 2007 Bangkok 50 m freestyle Silver medal – second place 2009 Vientiane 50 m freestyle

Arwut Chinnapasaen OLY (Thai: อาวุธ ชินนภาแสน; born December 3, 1980; nickname: 'X') is a Thai former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. He claimed two gold medals in the 50 m freestyle at the Southeast Asian Games (2003 and 2005), before losing out to Daniel Coakley of the Philippines in 2007.

Chinnapasaen qualified for the men's 50 m freestyle at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by posting a FINA B-standard entry time of 23.20 from the Southeast Asian Games in Hanoi, Vietnam. He challenged seven other swimmers on the sixth heat, including three-time Olympian Julio Santos of Ecuador. He raced to sixth place by one hundredth of a second (0.01) behind Cyprus' Chrysanthos Papachrysanthou in 23.52. Chinnapasaen failed to advance into the semifinals, as he matched a forty-sixth place tie with SEA Games medalist and former rival Allen Ong of Malaysia in the preliminaries.

Chinnapasaen is currently Head of Aquatics at St Andrews International School Bangkok. He has been a swimming coach at St Andrews since August 2015.