Chang Hee-jin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Chang Hee-jin

South Korean Olympic swimmer

Date of Birth: 05-Sep-1986

Place of Birth: Seoul, South Korea

Profession: swimmer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Chang Hee-jin

  • Chang Hee-jin (Korean: ???; born September 5, 1986) is a South Korean former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.
  • She is a two-time Olympian (2000 and 2008), and a three-time All-American swimmer in the same stroke (50, 100, and 200 m).
  • Chang is also a former varsity swimmer for the Texas Longhorns, and a graduate of political science at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas.
  • Prior to her time with the Longhorns, she attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, where she was a 4-year varsity athlete and a formerly held various NEPSAC swimming records.
  • Chang made her Olympic debut, as South Korea's youngest swimmer (aged 14), at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
  • There, she failed to advance into the semifinals in any of her individual events, finishing fortieth in the 100 m freestyle (58.77), and forty-first in the 50 m freestyle (26.88).
  • She also placed seventeenth, as a member of the South Korean team, in the 4 × 100 m medley relay (4:16.93).After an eight-year absence, Chang competed only in two events at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
  • She achieved FINA B-standards of 25.78 (50 m freestyle) and 56.50 (100 m freestyle) from the Dong-A Swimming Tournament in Ulsan.
  • In the 100 m freestyle, Chang challenged seven other swimmers in heat three, including 18-year-old Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace of the Bahamas.
  • She posted a lifetime best of 55.96 to earn a fourth spot and thirty-second overall by 0.34 of a second behind Austria's Birgit Koschischek.
  • In the 50 m freestyle, Chang placed thirty-first on the morning's preliminaries.
  • Swimming in heat nine, she raced to fifth place by a hundredth of a second (0.01) behind Canada's Victoria Poon in 25.59.

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