Choi Hye-ra, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Olympic swimmer
Date of Birth: 20-May-1991
Place of Birth: Seoul, South Korea
Profession: swimmer
Nationality: South Korea
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Choi Hye-ra
- Choi Hye-Ra (Korean: ? ??; born May 20, 1991) is a South Korean swimmer, who specialized in butterfly and individual medley events.
- She collected a total of four medals (1 silver and 3 bronze) in the 200 m butterfly, 200 m individual medley, and the 800 m freestyle relay at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar, and at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China.
- She also won a silver medal in the same medley distance at the 2011 Summer Universiade in Shenzhen, China, scorching a time of 2:14.17.
- Choi is a resident athlete of Osan Sports Club in Seoul.Choi made her official debut, as a 17-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
- She qualified for three swimming events by eclipsing a FINA A-cut of 2:09.46 (200 m butterfly) from the International Swim Meet in Chiba, Japan.
- On the first night of the preliminaries, Choi challenged five other swimmers in heat two including Cyprus' Natallia Hadjiloizou (previously competed for Belarus).
- She finished behind Estonia's Triin Aljand in second place and fortieth overall with a time of 1:00.65.
- In the 200 m individual medley, Choi touched out Slovenia's Anja Klinar to take the third spot on the same heat and twenty-fourth overall by 0.13 of a second, in a time of 2:15.26.
- In her third and final event, 200 m butterfly, Choi rounded out a top seeded heat with a last-place finish by nearly a second behind Brazil's Joanna Melo in 2:11.42.
- Choi failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed twenty-third overall in the preliminary heats.Four years later, Choi qualified for two swimming events at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London by clearing FINA A-standard entry times of 2:13.00 (200 m individual medley) and 2:08.81 (200 m butterfly) from the FINA World Championships in Shanghai, China.
- In the 200 m individual medley, Choi finished heat four in sixth place by 0.19 of a second behind Great Britain's Sophie Allen, lowering her Olympic time to 2:14.91.
- She placed twenty-fourth in the preliminary heats, and did not advance further into the semifinals.
- Unlike her previous Olympics, Choi registered a tenth fastest time of 2:08.45 in the 200 m butterfly to secure her spot for the semifinals on the morning's preliminary heats.
- Choi failed to qualify for the final, as she finished the semifinal run with a third-slowest time of 2:08.32.
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