Nieh Pin-chieh

{{Short description|Taiwanese swimmer (born 1988)}}

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| birth_place = Taipei, Taiwan

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Nieh Pin-chieh ({{zh|t=聶品潔|p=Niè Pǐnjié}}; born June 12, 1988) is a Taiwanese swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.{{cite sports-reference|title = Nieh Pin-Chieh|url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ni/nieh-pin-chieh-1.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200418063356/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ni/nieh-pin-chieh-1.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = 18 April 2020|access-date = 5 December 2012}} She represented the Chinese Taipei national team in two editions of the Olympic Games (2004 and 2008), competing in a sprint freestyle double.

Nieh made her own swimming history, as a 16-year-old teen, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where she competed in the women's 50 m freestyle. Swimming in heat five, she posted a lifetime best of 27.09 seconds to pick up a fourth spot, but trailed behind Puerto Rico's Vanessa García by more than a second. Furthermore, Nieh tied for forty-first overall with Hungary's Zsuzsanna Csobánki in the prelims.{{cite web|title=Women's 50m Freestyle Heat 5|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics_2004/swimming/results/3535060.stm|work=Athens 2004|publisher=BBC Sport|date=19 August 2004|accessdate=31 January 2013}}{{cite news|last=Thomas|first=Stephen|title=Women’s 50 Freestyle, Prelims Day 7: Inky Sizzles in World Best 24.66, Joyce Next in PR 25.06, Jenny Thompson Makes It Too|url=http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/womens-50-freestyle-prelims-day-7-inky-sizzles-in-world-best-24-66-joyce-next-in-pr-25-06-jenny-thompson-makes-it-too/|publisher=Swimming World Magazine|date=18 August 2004|accessdate=4 December 2015}}

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Nieh qualified for her second Chinese Taipei team in the 100 m freestyle. She attained a FINA-B cut of 57.02 seconds from the National Games in her native Taipei a year earlier.{{cite web|title=Olympic Cut Sheet – Women's 100m Freestyle|url=http://magazines.swimmingworld.com:9997/SPIPDF/080508olyscutsheet.pdf|format=PDF|page=48|publisher=Swimming World Magazine|accessdate=10 April 2013}} Nieh challenged against five other swimmers in heat two, including three from Southeast Asia. She came only in fifth by nearly five eighths of a second (0.61) behind Christel Simms of the Philippines with a 57.28. Nieh failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed forty-third out of 49 swimmers in the overall rankings.{{cite web|title=Women's 100m Freestyle – Heat 2 |url=http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/swimming/resultsandschedules/rsc=SWW011900/index.html |publisher=NBC Olympics |accessdate=5 December 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120821061742/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/swimming/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DSWW011900/index.html |archivedate=21 August 2012 }}{{cite news|title=聶品潔 今年最佳 許志傑 晉16耀眼|trans-title=Nieh Pin-chieh eliminated, Hsu Chi-chieh finished sixteenth this year|language=zh|url=http://www.appledaily.com.tw/appledaily/article/forum/20080814/30855182/|publisher=Apple Daily|location=Taiwan|date=14 August 2008|accessdate=4 December 2015}}