Park Kyung-hwa (also ''Park Gyeong-hwa'', ko, 박경화; born August 29, 1984) is a South Korean former swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events. She won a bronze medal as a member of the South Korean team in the 4 × 100 m medley relay (4:13.41), when her nation hosted the 2002 Asian Games in

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. Park qualified for the women's 100 m butterfly at the 2004 Summer Olympics in

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, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 1:01.79 from the Dong-A Swimming Tournament in

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. She challenged seven other swimmers on the second heat, including five-time Olympian Mette Jacobsen of Denmark. She rounded out the field to last place by a tenth of a second (0.10) behind Hong Kong's

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in 1:02.52. Park failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed thirty-third overall on the first day of preliminaries.

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1984 births Living people South Korean female butterfly swimmers Olympic swimmers for South Korea Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2002 Asian Games Asian Games medalists in swimming Asian Games bronze medalists for South Korea Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games {{SouthKorea-swimming-bio-stub