Hsieh Shu-tzu (; born January 2, 1981) is a Taiwanese former swimmer, who specialized in butterfly and individual medley events. She represented

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in two editions of the Olympic Games (1996 and 2000), and later captured a silver in the 200 m butterfly at the 2000 Asian Swimming Championships in

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. Hsieh made her first Chinese Taipei team, as a 15-year-old teen, at the

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in Atlanta. She failed to reach the top 16 final in any of her individual events, finishing eighteenth in the 200 m butterfly (2:16.27), and twenty-ninth in the 400 m individual medley (4:59.52). At the

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, Hsieh swam for Chinese Taipei in the 200 m butterfly. She achieved a FINA B-cut of 2:13.43 after winning a silver medal from the Asian Championships six months earlier. She challenged seven other swimmers in heat four, including Aussie favorite

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and Polish teenager Otylia Jędrzejczak. Coming from seventh at the halfway turn, Hsieh faded down the final stretch to pick up a last spot by almost eight seconds behind joint leaders Thomas and Jedrzejczak, in a time of 2:16.23. Hsieh failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed twenty-ninth overall in the prelims.

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1981 births Living people Taiwanese female butterfly swimmers Olympic swimmers for Taiwan Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Taiwanese female medley swimmers Swimmers from Taipei 21st-century Taiwanese women {{Taiwan-swimming-bio-stub