Shim Min-ji
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| Full name | Shim Min-ji | |||||||||||||||||||||
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 South Korea
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| Born | 25 April 1983 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 54 kg (119 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle, backstroke | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Shim Min-ji (also Sim Min-ji, Korean: 심 민지; born April 25, 1983) is a South Korean former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and backstroke events. She is a two-time Olympian (2000 and 2004) and a three-time relay medalist at the Asian Games (2002).
Shim made her Olympic debut, as a 17-year-old teen, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she competed in the women's 100 m backstroke. Swimming in heat three, Shim finished second behind Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry in 1:03.20, but missed the semifinals by 0.15 of a second, as she shared a nineteenth-place tie with Australia's Giaan Rooney in the preliminaries. She also placed seventeenth, as a member of the South Korean team, in the 4 × 100 m medley relay (4:16.93).
When her nation hosted the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, Shim won a total of three bronze medals: 4 × 100 m freestyle (3:44.81), 4 × 200 m freestyle (8:19.62), and 4 × 100 m medley relay (4:13.41). She also attempted for her fourth straight medal in the 100 m backstroke, but missed the podium by a 0.48-second margin behind Japan's Aya Terakawa.
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