Byun Hye-young

Byun Hye-young
Personal information
Full name Byun Hye-young
National team  South Korea
Born (1983-06-17) 17 June 1983
Seoul, South Korea
Height 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight 61 kg (134 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Breaststroke
This is a Korean name; the family name is Byun.

Byun Hye-young (also Byeon Hye-yeong, Korean: 변 혜영; born June 17, 1983) is a South Korean former swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.[1] She represented South Korea in two editions of the Olympic Games (1996 and 2000), and eventually became a top 20 finalist at the 2003 Summer Universiade in Daegu.[2][3]

Byun made her Olympic debut, as South Korea's youngest ever swimmer in history (aged 13), at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. There, she failed to reach the top 16 final in the 100 m breaststroke, finishing only in thirtieth place at 1:12.85.[4] In the 4×100 m medley relay, Byun. along with Lee Ji-hyun, Park Woo-hee, and Lee Bo-eun, placed eighteenth from the prelims in 4:18.98.[5]

At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Byun competed only in the 100 m breaststroke. She achieved a FINA B-cut of 1:11.11 from the Dong-A Swimming Tournament in Ulsan.[6] She challenged seven other swimmers in heat four, including top favorites Sarah Poewe of South Africa and Masami Tanaka of Japan. She rounded out the field to last place in 1:11.64, more than half a second (0.50) below her entry standard and 3.58 behind leader Poewe. Byun failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed twenty-fifth overall in the prelims.[7][8]

References

  1. ↑ "Byun Hye-young". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 19 June 2013.
  2. ↑ Lord, Craig (27 August 2003). "Klochkova Leads Ukraine to Team Crown at World University Games, USA Is Second". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 19 June 2013.
  3. ↑ Lord, Craig (26 August 2003). "Brits Take Two, Records Tumble on Day 3 of World University Games". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 19 June 2013.
  4. ↑ "Atlanta 1996: Aquatics (Swimming) – Women's 100m Breaststroke Heat 1" (PDF). Atlanta 1996. LA84 Foundation. p. 43. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
  5. ↑ "Atlanta 1996: Aquatics (Swimming) – Women's 4×100m Medley Relay Heat 4" (PDF). Atlanta 1996. LA84 Foundation. p. 53. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
  6. ↑ "Swimming – Women's 100m Breaststroke Startlist (Heat 4)" (PDF). Sydney 2000. Omega Timing. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
  7. ↑ "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 100m Breaststroke Heat 4" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 259. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
  8. ↑ "Dolan breaks own world mark in 400 IM". Canoe.ca. 17 September 2000. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
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