Yeh Tzu-cheng

Yeh Tzu-cheng
Personal information
Full name Yeh Tzu-cheng
National team  Chinese Taipei
Born (1987-11-22) 22 November 1987
Taipei, Taiwan
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 64 kg (141 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Butterfly

Yeh Tzu-cheng (Chinese: 葉子誠; pinyin: Yè Zichéng; born November 22, 1987) is a Taiwanese swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events.[1] Yeh qualified for the men's 200 m butterfly at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by posting a FINA B-standard entry time of 2:03.28 from the National University Games in Taipei.[2] He challenged seven other swimmers in heat two, including four-time Olympian Vladan Marković of Serbia and Montenegro. He rounded out the field to last place by a 6.39-second margin behind winner Nathaniel O'Brien of Canada in 2:06.41. Yeh failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-sixth overall in the preliminaries.[3][4]

References

  1. "Yeh Tzu-cheng". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 4 May 2013.
  2. "Swimming – Men's 200m Butterfly Startlist (Heat 2)" (PDF). Athens 2004. Omega Timing. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
  3. "Men's 200m Butterfly Heat 2". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 16 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  4. Thomas, Stephen (16 August 2004). "Men’s 200 Butterfly, Prelims Day 3: Michael Phelps and Japan’s Yamamoto Tie As Fastest Qualifiers; Tom Malchow will be there too". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
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