Harbeth Fu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Harbeth Fu

Olympic swimmer

Date of Birth: 18-Mar-1980

Place of Birth: Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China

Profession: swimmer

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Harbeth Fu

  • Harbeth Fu Wing (Chinese: ??; pinyin: Fú Yong; Jyutping: fu4 wing6; born March 18, 1980) is a Hong Kong former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.
  • He represented Hong Kong, China at the 2000 Summer Olympics, and later became a top 16 finalist at the Asian Games (2002 and 2006). Fu Wing competed only in the men's 50 m freestyle at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
  • He eclipsed a FINA B-cut of 23.71 from the Hong Kong Long Course Championships.
  • He challenged seven other swimmers in heat four, including Kyrgyzstan's Sergey Ashihmin, Goodwill Games silver medalist for Russia, and Kazakhstan's two-time Olympian Sergey Borisenko.
  • Fu Wing closed out the field to last place in a time of 24.20, finishing behind leader Borisenko by 0.74 seconds.
  • Fu Wing failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed fifty-third overall in the prelims.At the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea, Fu Wing failed to medal in any of his individual events, finishing eleventh in the 50 m freestyle (23.66), and seventeenth in the 100 m freestyle (53.44).

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