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方胤（William Yan Thorley，2002年9月3日出生）是香港男子馬拉松游泳運動員，主項為10公里公開水域賽事。2021年，他出戰在葡萄牙塞圖巴爾舉行、作為東京奧運資格賽的公開水域奧運資格賽，游出男子10公里第26名，並以亞洲選手排名第一的成績，為香港取得該項目的奧運參賽席位。同年8月5日，他在東京奧運會男子10公里馬拉松游泳決賽以1小時58分33秒4完成，排名第22位，成為首位代表香港出戰奧運馬拉松游泳項目的泳手。 2023年，他入選中國香港代表團，出戰杭州亞洲運動會馬拉松游泳項目，與冼展霆同為港隊在該屆亞運公開水域賽事的代表。在香港，公開水域游泳長期由少數泳手支撐，參與國際賽事的機會亦不及泳池項目；方胤以二十歲之齡取得奧運資格，並在奧運舞台上完成全程，為香港公開水域游泳寫下重要一頁。他早年已代表香港業餘游泳總會在本港及海外公開水域賽事中累積經驗，其後與冼展霆先後出戰全運會及亞運會等大型賽事。

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William Yan Thorley (born 3 September 2002) is a Hong Kong marathon swimmer who competes in 10km open-water events. In 2021 he raced the Olympic open-water qualifier at Setubal, Portugal, finishing 26th in the men's 10km as the highest-placed Asian swimmer, which earned Hong Kong the continental quota for the event. On 5 August of that year he completed the men's 10km marathon swim at the Tokyo Olympics in 1:58:33.4 for 22nd place, becoming the first Hong Kong swimmer to compete in an Olympic marathon swimming event. In 2023 he was named to the Hong Kong, China delegation for the marathon swimming event at the Hangzhou Asian Games, where he and Sin Chin Ting were the team's open-water representatives. Open-water swimming in Hong Kong is sustained by a small group of swimmers who have far fewer international opportunities than their pool-based teammates; Thorley's Olympic qualification and full-race finish at twenty years of age marked a significant step for the territory in the discipline.

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