Choi Hye-ra
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| Full name | Choi Hye-ra | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 South Korea
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20 May 1991 Seoul, South Korea |
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| Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 56 kg (123 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Butterfly, medley | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Osan Sports | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Choi Hye-Ra (Korean: 최 혜라; 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.
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