Park Kyung-hwa

Park Kyung-hwa
Personal information
Full name Park Kyung-hwa
National team  South Korea
Born (1984-08-29) 29 August 1984
Height 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight 50 kg (110 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Butterfly
This is a Korean name; the family name is Park.

Park Kyung-hwa (also Park Gyeong-hwa, Korean: 박 경화; born August 29, 1984) is a South Korean former swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events.[1] She won a bronze medal as a member of the South Korean team in the 4×100 m medley relay (4:13.41), when her nation hosted the 2002 Asian Games in Busan.[2]

Park qualified for the women's 100 m butterfly at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 1:01.79 from the Dong-A Swimming Tournament in Seoul.[3] She challenged seven other swimmers on the second heat, including five-time Olympian Mette Jacobsen of Denmark. She rounded out the field to last place by a tenth of a second (0.10) behind Hong Kong's Sze Hang Yu in 1:02.52. Park failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed thirty-third overall on the first day of preliminaries.[4][5]

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