Ku Hyo-jin

Ku Hyo-jin

Personal information
Full name	Ku Hyo-jin
National team	South Korea
Born	19 June 1985 Seoul, South Korea
Height	1.58 m (5 ft 2 in)
Weight	53 kg (117 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Breaststroke
Medal record Women's swimming Representing South Korea Asian Games 2002 Busan 4×100 m medley

Ku Hyo-Jin (also Gu Hyo-Jin, Korean: 구 효진; born June 19, 1985) is a South Korean former swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.^[1] She represented South Korea, as a 15-year-old, at the 2000 Summer Olympics, and later helped her squad capture the bronze medal for the host nation at the 2002 Asian Games.

Ku competed only in two swimming events at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She achieved a FINA B-cut of 2:31.76 from the Dong-A Swimming Tournament in Ulsan.^[2] In the 200 m breaststroke, Ku failed to advance to the top 8 final, as she finished her semifinal run with an eleventh-place time in 2:28.50.^[3][4] Earlier in the prelims, she made a surprise packet with a new South Korean record of 2:28.21 from an outside lane in heat four to pick up a similar seed for the top 16 field.^[5][6] Ku also teamed up with Shim Min-ji, Chang Hee-jin, and Lee Bo-eun in the 4×100 m medley relay. Swimming the breaststroke leg in heat two, Ku recorded a split of 1:10.89, but the South Koreans rounded out a six-team field to last place and seventeenth overall in a final time of 4:16.93.^[7][8]

When her nation hosted the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, Ku gave the South Korean home crowd a further reason to celebrate, as she shared bronze medals with Shim Min-ji and newcomers Park Kyung-hwa and Sun So-eun in the 4×100 m medley relay (4:13.41).^[9] She also attempted for her first career medal in the 100 m breaststroke, but finished off the podium by exactly a single second with a fifth-place time of 1:11.11.^[10]

References

1. "Ku Hyo-Jin". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 19 June 2013.
2. "Swimming – Women's 200m Breaststroke Startlist (Heat 4)" (PDF). Sydney 2000. Omega Timing. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
3. "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 200m Breaststroke Semifinal 1" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 264. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
4. "Results from the Summer Olympics – Swimming (Women's 200m Breaststroke)". Canoe.ca. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
5. Whitten, Phillip (20 September 2000). "Olympic Day 5 Prelims". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 19 June 2013.
6. "[시드니 속보]수영 구효진 11위 역대최고성적" [Breaking news, Sydney: Ku Hyo-jin finished in 11th place] (in Korean). The Dong-a Ilbo. 20 September 2000. Retrieved 9 November 2015.
7. "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 4×100m Medley Relay Heat 2" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 364. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
8. "Results from the Summer Olympics – Swimming (Women's 4×100m Medley Relay)". Canoe.ca. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
9. "Wu and Qi Win Third Gold Apiece, as China Winds Up a Dominant Performance at Asian Games". Swimming World Magazine. 5 October 2002. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
10. "China Sweeps All Five Events on Day Two of Asian Games". Swimming World Magazine. 1 October 2002. Retrieved 19 June 2013.