Tseng Cheng-hua

Tseng Cheng-hua
Personal information
Full name Tseng Cheng-hua
National team  Chinese Taipei
Born (1980-09-25) 25 September 1980
Taipei, Taiwan
Height 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight 57 kg (126 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Butterfly
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Cheng.

Tseng Cheng-hua (Chinese: 曾 正華; pinyin: Céng Zhènghuá; born September 25, 1980) is a Taiwanese former swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events.[1] He is a single-time Olympian (2000), and a top 8 finalist in both 100 and 200 m butterfly at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea.[2][3]

Tseng competed only in two individual events at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He achieved FINA B-standards of 56.13 (100 m butterfly) and 2:04.83 (200 m butterfly) from the National University Games in Taipei.[4][5] In his first event, 200 m butterfly, Tseng placed thirty-fifth on the morning prelims. He established a Taiwanese record of 2:03.62 to lead against five other swimmers in heat one.[6][7] Three days later, in the 100 m butterfly, Tseng challenged seven other swimmers in heat three, including Kyrgyzstan's Konstantin Ushkov, silver medalist for Russia in Atlanta four years earlier, and Uzbekistan's top favorite Ravil Nachaev. He posted a time of 56.39 to earn a third seed and fifty-second overall, finishing behind winner Nachaev by more than a second.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Tseng Cheng-hua". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
  2. ↑ "China and Japan Share the Gold on Day 5 of Asian Games; China's Wu and Xu Shine". Swimming World Magazine. 4 October 2002. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  3. ↑ "Asian Games: Japan, China Win Three Apiece on Day Four". Swimming World Magazine. 3 October 2002. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
  4. ↑ "Swimming – Men's 100m Butterfly Startlist (Heat 3)" (PDF). Sydney 2000. Omega Timing. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
  5. ↑ "Swimming – Men's 200m Butterfly Startlist (Heat 1)" (PDF). Sydney 2000. Omega Timing. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
  6. ↑ "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Men's 200m Butterfly Heat 1" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 216. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
  7. ↑ "Malchow sets Olympic record in 200 fly". Canoe.ca. 18 September 2000. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
  8. ↑ "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Men's 100m Butterfly Heat 3" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 207. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
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