Liu Limin

Liu Limin (Chinese:刘黎敏; born 27 March 1976) is a former swimmer from the People's Republic of China.

Career

For first international attention Liu Limin made ​​at the Short Course World Championships in 1993 in Palma when she was world champion over 200 meters butterfly and with the Chinese 4 × 100 meter medley relay.

In 1994, she was both the 100m and 200m butterfly world champion at the World Swimming Championships in Rome.

The following year, at the Short Course World Championships in Rio de Janeiro, she was able to secure the world title in the 100 meters butterfly in a new world record time.

At the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996 she also won the silver medal in the 100 meter butterfly. About 200 meters butterfly, she was finally Fifth.

Your last title won Liu at the Short Course World Championships in Gothenburg in 1997, when she became world champion on their special route, the 200 meter butterfly.

In 2000 she took part again in the Olympic Summer Games 2000 in Sydney. There they only reached with the Chinese 4 × 100 meter medley relay an Olympic final, where they eventually Eighth was. About 100 meters butterfly, where it was 18 and over 200 meter butterfly, where she was 19, she did not make it past the preliminary heats.

In 2001, she ended her career.