fullname coach club birth_place weight height birth_date article_title strokes name collegeteam
flora kong yan kay dave salo -lrb- u.s. -rrb- irvine novaquatics -lrb- u.s. -rrb- hong kong , hong kong 46 kg lb 0 on 1.60 0 on 14 december 1984 flora kong
 butterfly flora kong university of california , berkeley -lrb- u.s. -rrb-
flora kong

flora kong yan kay -lrb- also `` kong yan kay '' or `` flora kong '' , ; born december 14 , 1984 -rrb- is a retired hong kong swimmer , who specialized in butterfly events .
she represented hong kong , as a 15-year-old , at the 2000 summer olympics , and later became a finalist in the 200 m butterfly at the 2002 asian games .
kong competed only in the women 's 100 m butterfly at the 2000 summer olympics in sydney .
she achieved a fina b-cut of 1:03.39 from the hong kong long course championships .
she challenged six other swimmers in heat two , including two-time olympians hsieh shu-ting and maría del pilar pereyra .
coming from third at the final turn , kong strengthened her own pace on the final stretch , but fell short to second place by more than half a second -lrb- 0.50 -rrb- behind hsieh in 1:04.09 .
kong failed to advance into the semifinals , as she placed forty-second overall on the first day of prelims .
at the 2002 asian games in busan , south korea , kong failed to medal in any of her individual events , finishing eighth in the 100 m butterfly -lrb- 1:03.42 -rrb- , and eleventh in the 200 m butterfly -lrb- 2:22.41 -rrb- .
when she left hong kong to come to the united states , kong trained for world-class coach dave salo at the irvine novaquatics club , and helped the swim team set school records in all medley relays -lrb- both 200 and 400 m -rrb- .
she also played for the california golden bears swimming and diving team under women 's head coach teri mckeever , and spent two years of undergraduate studies at the university of california , berkeley .
