Park Kyung-hwa, Date of Birth

    

Park Kyung-hwa

Olympic swimmer

Date of Birth: 29-Aug-1984

Profession: swimmer

Nationality: South Korea

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Park Kyung-hwa

  • Park Kyung-hwa (also Park Gyeong-hwa, Korean: ? ??; born August 29, 1984) is a South Korean former swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events.
  • 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.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.
  • 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.

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