Yang Chin-kuei

Yang Chin-kuei (Chinese: 楊金桂; pinyin: Yáng Jīnguì; born 30 September 1987) is a Taiwanese swimmer, who specialized in butterfly and freestyle events.^[1] She represented the Chinese Taipei national team in two editions of the Olympic Games (2004 and 2008).

Yang Chin-kuei

Personal information
Full name	Yang Chin-kuei
National team	Chinese Taipei
Born	(1987-09-30) 30 September 1987 (age 36) Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Height	1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight	59 kg (130 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle, butterfly
College team	National Taiwan University of Physical Education and Sport
Coach	Liu Chao-lan
Medal record Women's lifesaving Representing  Chinese Taipei The World Games 2009 Kaohsiung 200 m obstacle swim

Yang made her own swimming history, as a 16-year-old teen, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where she competed in the women's 200 m freestyle. Swimming at the middle lane in heat one, Yang held on with Thailand's Pilin Tachakittiranan throughout the race before fading herself down the stretch to hit the wall in second place and thirty-sixth overall by just 0.36 of a second at a relatively slow 2:05.65.^[2][3]

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Yang extended her swimming program to four events, including the butterfly double. On the first day of the competition, she swam the second heat to third place and forty-third overall in the 100 m butterfly at 1:01.60, edging out Turkey's Iris Rosenberger in a sprint race by close 0.07-second margin.^[4] The following day, Yang placed fortieth in the 400 m freestyle, with a time of 4:24.78,^[5] and was able to attain her well-improved time of 2:02.84, for a 37th-place finish in the 200 m freestyle.^[6] For her final event, 200 m butterfly, Yang swam in the second heat, against six other competitors including Singapore's Tao Li, who placed fifth in the 100 m butterfly final. She finished the race in sixth place by approximately one third of a second (0.33), behind Tao, with a time of 2:13.26. After placing twenty-ninth in the overall rankings of her final event, Yang, however, failed to advance into the later rounds.^[7]