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| 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 | ||||||||||||||
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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]
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Ku Hyo-Jin". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 19 June 2013.
- ^ "Swimming – Women's 200m Breaststroke Startlist (Heat 4)" (PDF). Sydney 2000. Omega Timing. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
- ^ "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 200m Breaststroke Semifinal 1" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 264. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 August 2011. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
- ^ "Results from the Summer Olympics – Swimming (Women's 200m Breaststroke)". Canoe.ca. Archived from the original on June 16, 2013. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Whitten, Phillip (20 September 2000). "Olympic Day 5 Prelims". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 24 June 2013. Retrieved 19 June 2013.
- ^ "[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.
- ^ "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 4×100m Medley Relay Heat 2" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 364. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 August 2011. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
- ^ "Results from the Summer Olympics – Swimming (Women's 4×100m Medley Relay)". Canoe.ca. Archived from the original on June 15, 2013. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "Wu and Qi Win Third Gold Apiece, as China Winds Up a Dominant Performance at Asian Games". Swimming World Magazine. 5 October 2002. Archived from the original on 28 December 2013. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
- ^ "China Sweeps All Five Events on Day Two of Asian Games". Swimming World Magazine. 1 October 2002. Archived from the original on 24 June 2013. Retrieved 19 June 2013.