Choi Kyu-woong

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Choi Kyu-Woong
Personal information
Nationality  South Korea
Born (1990-05-28) 28 May 1990 (age 34)
Busan, South Korea
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Weight 74 kg (163 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Breaststroke
College team Korea National Sport University
Coach Lee Woo-Shin[1]
Medal record
Men's swimming
Representing  South Korea
Asian Games
Silver medal – second place 2010 Guangzhou 200 m breaststroke
Silver medal – second place 2010 Guangzhou 4×100 m medley
East Asian Games
Silver medal – second place 2009 Hong Kong 100 m breaststroke
Bronze medal – third place 2009 Hong Kong 200 m breaststroke

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This is a Korean name; the family name is Choi.

Choi Kyu-Woong (also Choi Gyu-Wung, Korean: 최 규웅; born May 28, 1990 in Busan) is a South Korean swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.[1][2] He shared silver medals with China's Xue Ruipeng in the 200 m breaststroke at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, in a time of 2:12.25.[3] He also collected two medals (silver and bronze) in both 100 and 200 m breaststroke at the 2009 East Asian Games in Hong Kong, China.[4][5] Choi is a member of the swimming team at the Korea National Sport University in Seoul, under his personal coach Lee Woo-Shin.[1]

Choi qualified for the men's 200 m breaststroke at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, by breaking a South Korean record and clearing a FINA A-standard time of 2:11.17 from the FINA World Championships in Shanghai, China.[6][7][8] He challenged seven other swimmers on the third heat, including former silver medalist Dániel Gyurta of Hungary and local favorite Michael Jamieson of Great Britain. Choi raced to seventh place by less than 0.04 of a second behind Ukraine's Igor Borysik in 2:13.57. Choi failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed twenty-fifth overall in the preliminary heats.[9]

References

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