birth_place weight height birth_date article_title strokes name
taipei , taiwan 63 kg lb 0 on 1.76 0 on 18 october 1967 huang chih-yung
 freestyle , breaststroke huang chih-yung
huang chih-yung

huang chih-yung -lrb- ; born october 18 , 1967 in taipei -rrb- is a retired taiwanese swimmer , who specialized in sprint freestyle events .
he is a two-time olympian -lrb- 1996 and 2000 -rrb- , and a bronze medalist at the 1998 asian games .
huang made his official debut , as a 28-year-old , at the 1996 summer olympics in atlanta .
he failed to reach the top 16 final in any of his individual events , finishing thirty-third in the 100 m breaststroke -lrb- 1:05.26 -rrb- , thirty-fourth in the 200 m breaststroke -lrb- 2:25.96 -rrb- , and fifty-sixth each in the 50 m freestyle -lrb- 24.89 -rrb- and in the 100 m freestyle -lrb- 53.47 -rrb- .
two years later , at the 1998 asian games in bangkok , thailand , huang shared bronze medals with china 's zhao lifeng and chinese taipei 's huang chih-yung in the 100 m freestyle , with a matching time of 52.21 .
huang swam only in the men 's 50 m freestyle at the 2000 summer olympics in sydney .
he eclipsed a fina b-cut of 23.75 from the asian championships in busan , south korea .
he challenged seven other swimmers in heat four , including kyrgyzstan 's sergey ashihmin , goodwill games silver medalist for russia , and kazakhstan 's two-time olympian sergey borisenko .
diving in with a 0.68-second deficit , huang faded down the stretch to hit the wall for a seventh seed in 24.01 , a slimmest margin closer to peru 's luis lópez hartinger and singapore 's leslie kwok -lrb- a matching time of 24.00 -rrb- .
huang failed to advance into the semifinals , as he placed fifty-first overall in the prelims .
