Baek Il-Joo

Who is Baek Il-Joo?

Baek Il-Joo is a South Korean swimmer, who specialized in freestyle events. Baek qualified for the women's 200 m freestyle, as South Korea's oldest swimmer, at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, by eclipsing a FINA B-standard entry time of 2:01.24 from the Dong-A Swimming Tournament in Ulsan. She challenged four other swimmers on the first heat, including two-time Olympian Natthanan Junkrajang of Thailand. Baek raced to third place by 0.77 of a second behind Switzerland's Danielle Villars with a third-slowest time of 2:04.32. Baek failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed thirty-third overall in the preliminary heats.