Huang Xiaomin (; born April 14, 1970) is a Chinese former

breaststroke Breaststroke is a swimming style in which the swimmer is on their chest and the torso does not rotate. It is the most popular recreational style due to the swimmer's head being out of the water a large portion of the time, and that it can be s ...

swimmer, whose best performance during her career was winning the silver medal in the 200 m breaststroke at the

1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October ...

Seoul Seoul (; ; ), officially known as the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea.Before 1972, Seoul was the ''de jure'' capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) as stated iArticle 103 ...

, South Korea. She was born in

Qiqihar Qiqihar () is the second-largest city in the Heilongjiang province of China, in the west central part of the province. The built-up (or metro) area made up of Longsha, Tiefeng and Jianhua districts had 959,787 inhabitants, while the total populat ...

Heilongjiang Heilongjiang () formerly romanized as Heilungkiang, is a province in northeast China. The standard one-character abbreviation for the province is (). It was formerly romanized as "Heilungkiang". It is the northernmost and easternmost province ...

. She admitted to have used doping substances during her active career and is now publicly opposed to it.

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Athlete Profile at DatabaseOlympics.com
1970 births Living people Chinese female breaststroke swimmers Swimmers from Heilongjiang Olympic silver medalists for China Olympic swimmers for China Sportspeople from Qiqihar Swimmers at the 1988 Summer Olympics Asian Games medalists in swimming Swimmers at the 1986 Asian Games Swimmers at the 1990 Asian Games Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists in swimming Asian Games gold medalists for China Asian Games silver medalists for China Medalists at the 1986 Asian Games Medalists at the 1990 Asian Games 20th-century Chinese women {{PRChina-swimming-bio-stub