Roh Joo-hee, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Roh Joo-hee

Olympic swimmer

Date of Birth: 18-Mar-1983

Place of Birth: Seoul, South Korea

Profession: swimmer

Nationality: South Korea

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Roh Joo-hee

  • Roh Joo-hee (also No Ju-hui, Korean: ? ??; born March 18, 1983) is a South Korean former swimmer, who specialized in middle-distance freestyle and breaststroke events.
  • As a teenager, she represented South Korea in two editions of the Olympic Games (1996 and 2000), and also held numerous career bests and national records in both 200 and 400 m freestyle. Roh made her Olympic debut, as South Korea's youngest ever swimmer in history (aged 13), at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
  • She failed to reach the top 16 final in the 200 m breaststroke, finishing only in twenty-eighth place at 2:36.20.At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Roh competed only in a middle-distance freestyle double.
  • She achieved FINA B-standards of 2:03.40 (200 m freestyle) and 4:20.02 (400 m freestyle) from the Asian Championships in Busan.
  • On the second day of the Games, Roh placed thirty-seventh in the 400 m freestyle.
  • Swimming in heat two, she faded down the stretch to pick up a seventh seed in 4:25.66, more than a dozen body length behind leader Laetitia Choux of France.
  • The following day, in the 200 m freestyle, Roh posted a time of 2:07.21 to round out the field in heat three, but finished only in thirty-third place on the morning prelims.

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