Kim Hye-jin (swimmer)

Kim Hye-Jin
Personal information
Nationality  South Korea
Born (1994-05-03) 3 May 1994
Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea
Height 1.67 m (5 ft 5 1⁄2 in)
Weight 62 kg (137 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Breaststroke
This is a Korean name; the family name is Kim.

Kim Hye-Jin (born May 3, 1994 in Chungcheongnam-do) is a South Korean swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.[1][2] Kim qualified for the women's 100 m breaststroke at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, by eclipsing a FINA B-standard entry time of 1:08.80 from the Dong-A Swimming Tournament in Ulsan.[3] She challenged seven other swimmers on the third heat, including three-time Olympian Alia Atkinson of Jamaica. Kim raced to seventh place by 0.36 of a second behind Turkey's Dilara Buse Günaydın, outside her entry time of 1:09.79. Kim failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed thirty-third overall in the preliminary heats.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Kim Hye-Jin". London 2012. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
  2. ↑ "Kim Hye-Jin". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
  3. ↑ "Qualifying Athletes – Women's 100 m breaststroke" (PDF). FINA. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
  4. ↑ "Women's 100m Breaststroke Heat 3". London 2012. Retrieved 3 April 2013.

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