Ku Hyo-jin
South Korean swimmer (born 1985)
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Ku Hyo-jin (Korean: 구효진; born June 19, 1985) is a South Korean former swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.[1] She represented South Korea, as a 15-year-old, at the 2000 Summer Olympics, and later helped her squad capture the bronze medal for the host nation at the 2002 Asian Games.
South Korea| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Ku Hyo-jin | ||||||||||||||
| National team | South Korea | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 19 June 1985 Seoul, South Korea | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.58 m (5 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 53 kg (117 lb) | ||||||||||||||
| Korean name | |||||||||||||||
| Hangul | 구효진 | ||||||||||||||
| RR | Gu Hyojin | ||||||||||||||
| MR | Ku Hyojin | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Breaststroke | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Ku competed only in two swimming events at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She achieved a FINA B-cut of 2:31.76 from the Dong-A Swimming Tournament in Ulsan.[2] In the 200 m breaststroke, Ku failed to advance to the top 8 final, as she finished her semifinal run with an eleventh-place time in 2:28.50.[3][4] Earlier in the prelims, she made a surprise packet with a new South Korean record of 2:28.21 from an outside lane in heat four to pick up a similar seed for the top 16 field.[5][6] Ku also teamed up with Shim Min-ji, Chang Hee-jin, and Lee Bo-eun in the 4×100 m medley relay. Swimming the breaststroke leg in heat two, Ku recorded a split of 1:10.89, but the South Koreans rounded out a six-team field to last place and seventeenth overall in a final time of 4:16.93.[7][8]
When her nation hosted the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, Ku gave the South Korean home crowd a further reason to celebrate, as she shared bronze medals with Shim Min-ji and newcomers Park Kyung-hwa and Sun So-eun in the 4×100 m medley relay (4:13.41).[9] She also attempted for her first career medal in the 100 m breaststroke, but finished off the podium by exactly a single second with a fifth-place time of 1:11.11.[10]
