Byun Hye-Young (also Byeon Hye-Yeong Korean: ; born June 17 1983 in Seoul) is a retired South Korean swimmer who specialized in breaststroke events. She represented South Korea in two editions of the Olympic Games (1996 and 2000) and eventually became a top 20 finalist at the 2003 Summer Universiade in Daegu.Byun made her official debut as South Korea's youngest ever swimmer in history (aged 13) at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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