fullname birth_place weight height birth_date article_title strokes name
乐靖宜 shanghai , china 68 kg 178 cm 19 march 1975 le jingyi
 freestyle le jingyi
le jingyi

le jingyi -lrb- ; born march 19 , 1975 in shanghai -rrb- is a former swimmer from china who won the gold medal in the 100 metres freestyle at the 1996 summer olympics in atlanta , usa .
in 1992 , le won the silver medal in the 4 × 100 metres freestyle relay -lrb- 3:40.12 -rrb- at the 1992 summer olympics in barcelona , and also finished 6th in the 100 m free -lrb- 55.89 -rrb- .
in 1993 she defeated her teammate , olympic champion zhuang yong , to become national champion in the 100 m free -lrb- 54.72 , 2nd globally after franziska van almsick -rrb- .
in december 1993 , she won 4 golds , all in world record times , at the 1st ever world short course championships in spain -lrb- 50 m free : 24.23 ; 100 m free : 53.01 ; 4 × 100 m free relay : 3:35.97 and 4 × 100 m medley reply : 3:57.73 -rrb- .
she won the title in the 100 metres freestyle at the 1994 world aquatics championships in rome , setting a world record with a time of 54.01 seconds .
she also set a world record in the 50 metres freestyle -lrb- 24.51 -rrb- and anchored two world record-setting relays .
she also won 3 golds in the 1995 short course worlds in brazil .
at the atlanta olympics , she won the 100 m freestyle -lrb- 54.50 -rrb- and won silver medals in the 4 × 100 metres freestyle relay -lrb- 3:40.48 -rrb- and the 50 metres freestyle -lrb- 24.90 -rrb- .
le continued to compete in 1997 , winning the 50 m freestyle -lrb- 25.24 -rrb- and taking silver in the 10 0m -lrb- 54.86 -rrb- and 200 m -lrb- 2:00.54 -rrb- at the pan pacific championships .
at the 1997 chinese national games , she was upset by shan ying in the 50 m -lrb- 24.71 to 24.88 -rrb- , though she took gold in the 100 m -lrb- 54.10 , 2nd fastest all-time -rrb- .
le competed at the 1998 world championships in perth but only swam in relays .
she recorded the slowest split -lrb- 57.59 -rrb- among all 32 swimmers in the 4 × 100 m free relay final , where the chinese team placed 8th .
in 2000 , le made an attempt to qualify for her third olympics but was off-form to make it into the team .
while le had been olympic champion and world champion many times , she had never won a medal at the asian games .
she competed in the 1994 games in hiroshima , entering the 50 m free and 4 × 100 m free relay .
in the 50 free , she set a games record -lrb- 25.26 -rrb- in the heats but was disqualified in the final for a false start .
in the 4 × 100 m free relay , the chinese team won -lrb- le swam the 2nd leg and split 54.14 -rrb- but was subsequently stripped of their gold when lu bin failed a doping test .
she was the face of the rising power of chinese swimming in the mid-1990s .
due to her muscular build , she was one of many chinese swimmers suspected of using steroids during the 1990s .
though several others were later found guilty of doping , she never tested positive for any illegal substances .
