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
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Ye.

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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