Yang Chin-kuei

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Yang Chin-kuei
Personal information
Full nameYang Chin-kuei
National team 
butterfly
College teamNational Taiwan University of Physical Education and Sport
CoachLiu Chao-lan
Medal record
Women's lifesaving
Representing  Chinese Taipei
The World Games
Bronze medal – third place 2009 Kaohsiung 200 m obstacle swim
In this Chinese name, the family name is Yang.

Yang Chin-kuei (Chinese: 楊金桂; pinyin: Yáng Jīnguì; born 30 September 1987) is a Taiwanese swimmer, who specialized in butterfly and freestyle events.[1] She represented the Chinese Taipei national team in two editions of the Olympic Games (2004 and 2008).

Yang made her own swimming history, as a 16-year-old teen, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where she competed in the women's 200 m freestyle. Swimming at the middle lane in heat one, Yang held on with Thailand's Pilin Tachakittiranan throughout the race before fading herself down the stretch to hit the wall in second place and thirty-sixth overall by just 0.36 of a second at a relatively slow 2:05.65.[2][3]

At the

Iris Rosenberger in a sprint race by close 0.07-second margin.[4] The following day, Yang placed fortieth in the 400 m freestyle, with a time of 4:24.78,[5] and was able to attain her well-improved time of 2:02.84, for a 37th-place finish in the 200 m freestyle.[6] For her final event, 200 m butterfly, Yang swam in the second heat, against six other competitors including Singapore's Tao Li, who placed fifth in the 100 m butterfly final. She finished the race in sixth place by approximately one third of a second (0.33), behind Tao, with a time of 2:13.26. After placing twenty-ninth in the overall rankings of her final event, Yang, however, failed to advance into the later rounds.[7]

References

  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Yang Chin-Kuei". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
  2. Athens 2004. BBC Sport
    . 16 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  3. Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original
    on 30 June 2013. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
  4. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original
    on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
  5. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original
    on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
  6. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original
    on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
  7. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original
    on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 5 December 2012.


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