Career
Yip qualified for the women"s 100 m breaststroke, as Hong Kong"s youngest ever swimmer (aged 13), at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She set a new Hong Kong record and posted a FINA B-standard entry time of 1:13.02 from the Asian Age Group Championships in her home venue. She challenged seven other swimmers in heat two, including 15-year-old Alia Atkinson, who later became Jamaica"s top swimmer.
She edged out Iceland"s Íris Edda Heimisdóttir to claim a seventh spot by 0.82 of a second, outside her record time of 1:14.53.
Yip failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed thirty-ninth overall in the preliminaries.
