Hsieh Shu-ting

Hsieh Shu-ting
Personal information
Full name Hsieh Shu-ting
National team  Chinese Taipei
Born (1981-01-02) 2 January 1981
Taipei, Taiwan
Height 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight 47 kg (104 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle, butterfly

Hsieh Shu-ting (Chinese: 謝 淑婷; pinyin: Xiè Shūtíng; born January 2, 1981) is a Taiwanese former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events.[1] She represented Chinese Taipei in two editions of the Olympic Games (1996 and 2000), and later captured a bronze medal in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay (8:18.92) at the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand.[2]

Hsieh made her first Chinese Taipei team, as a 15-year-old teen, at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. She failed to reach the top 16 final in the 100 m butterfly, finishing in thirty-seventh place at 1:04.39.[3] A member of the Chinese Taipei squad, she placed nineteenth in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay (8:27.61), and twenty-fourth in the 4 × 100 m medley relay (4:38.90).[4][5]

At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Hsieh drastically shortened her program on her second Olympic appearance, swimming only in the 100 m butterfly. She achieved a FINA B-cut of 1:03.25 from the National University Games in Taipei.[6] Swimming in heat two, she pulled away from the rest of the field by more than half a second (0.50) to a top seed, from start to finish, in a sterling time of 1:03.52. Hsieh's effortless triumph was not enough to put her through to the semifinals, as she placed forty-first overall on the first day of prelims.[7][8]

References

  1. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill. "Hsieh Shu-ting". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
  2. ↑ "泳壇姊妹花換跑道 謝淑婷 謝淑姿投身運動產業" [Swimming sisters Hsieh Shu-ting and Shu-tzu changed careers to join in the sports industry] (in Chinese). Liberty Times. 15 March 2007. Retrieved 25 November 2015.
  3. ↑ "Atlanta 1996: Aquatics (Swimming) – Women's 100m Butterfly Heat 2" (PDF). Atlanta 1996. LA84 Foundation. p. 47. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 May 2011. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
  4. ↑ "Atlanta 1996: Aquatics (Swimming) – Women's 4×200m Freestyle Relay Heat 2" (PDF). Atlanta 1996. LA84 Foundation. p. 52. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 May 2011. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
  5. ↑ "Atlanta 1996: Aquatics (Swimming) – Women's 4×100m Medley Relay Heat 1" (PDF). Atlanta 1996. LA84 Foundation. p. 53. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 May 2011. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
  6. ↑ "Swimming – Women's 100m Butterfly Startlist (Heat 2)" (PDF). Sydney 2000. Omega Timing. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
  7. ↑ "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 100m Butterfly Heat 2" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 224. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 August 2011. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
  8. ↑ Newberry, Paul (16 September 2000). "Thompson anchors U.S. relay win; Thorpe wins 400 free". Canoe.ca. Retrieved 28 May 2013.


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