Lee Ji-young (swimmer)

Lee Ji-young (also Lee Ji-yeong, Korean: 이 지영; born July 10, 1989) is a South Korean swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.^[1] She became the first female South Korean in history to train in the United States, and swim for the Peddie Aquatic Association in Hightstown, New Jersey.^[2]

Lee Ji-young

Personal information
Full name	Lee Ji-young
National team	South Korea
Born	(1989-07-10) 10 July 1989 (age 35) Seoul, South Korea
Height	1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight	52 kg (115 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Breaststroke
Club	Peddie Aquatics (U.S.)

In this Korean name, the family name is Lee.

As one of South Korea's youngest swimmers, Lee qualified for two swimming events at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by achieving FINA A-standard entry time of 2:31.32 (200 m breaststroke) from the Dong-A Swimming Tournament in Seoul.^[3][4] In the 100 m breaststroke, Lee challenged seven other swimmers on the third heat, including two-time Olympian İlkay Dikmen of Turkey. She edged out New Zealand's Annabelle Carey to take a seventh spot and thirty-third overall by 0.29 of a second in 1:12.93.^[5][6] In her second event, 200 m breaststroke, Lee placed twenty-fourth overall on the morning's preliminaries. Swimming in the final heat of five, she rounded out a field of seven swimmers to last place in 2:34.55, more than three seconds off her entry time.^[7][8]