Jiao Liuyang

Jiao Liuyang is a retired Chinese swimmer, born on 6 August 1991, who won the 200 m butterfly at the 2012 Olympics and formerly held the world record in the 4 by 100 m medley relay. She won the 200 m butterfly at the 2006 Asian Championships in a championship record, and at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing took the silver medal in the 200 m butterfly in 2:04.72, when she and the gold medalist Liu Zige both surpassed the former world record. At the 2009 World Championships in Rome she won bronze in the 100 m butterfly in an Asian record of 56.86, and she swam the butterfly leg of the Chinese medley relay that won gold in a world record 3:52.19.