Park Kyung-hwa
South Korean swimmer (born 1984)
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Park Kyung-hwa (Korean: 박경화; 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]
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| Full name | Park Kyung-hwa | ||||||||||||||
| National team |  South Korea | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 August 1984 | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 50 kg (110 lb) | ||||||||||||||
| Korean name | |||||||||||||||
| Hangul | 박경화 | ||||||||||||||
| RR | Bak Gyeonghwa | ||||||||||||||
| MR | Pak Kyŏnghwa | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Butterfly | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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]
