Home / Birthday profiles / Liu Zige

Birthday profile

Liu Zige

Liu Zige, Chinese swimmer

Find birthday twinsOpen interactive profile
Born
March 31, 1989
Age in 2026
37
Zodiac sign
Aries
Birth year
1989

About Liu Zige

Liu Zige is a Chinese competitive swimmer. She won gold medal in the 200 m butterfly at the 2008 Olympics, and is the current world record holder in the event. She qualified fastest for the final with a new Asian record of 2:06.25. In the final, she went head-to-head with Jessicah Schipper, who was the world record holder and reigning world champion in the event. Liu, a relative unknown, went 2:04.18 to win the gold medal and break Schipper's world record of 2:05.40 from 2006.

Biography source: Wikipedia. The profile adds birthday-specific historical context from the Celebs Birthday Today editorial database.

Liu Zige timeline

  1. Liu, a relative unknown, went 2:04.18 to win the gold medal and break Schipper's world record of 2:05.40 from 2006.
  2. She won gold medal in the 200 m butterfly at the 2008 Olympics, and is the current world record holder in the event.

The world when Liu Zige was born

Liu Zige was born in 1989. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1989

  • #1 song"Look Away" – Chicago
  • Top movieDriving Miss Daisy
  • Top TV showRoseanne
  • Best-selling bookThe Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan

Headlines and milestones

  • Major sports momentSan Francisco earthquake interrupts the World Series
  • Top headlineFall of the Berlin Wall signals end of the Cold War
  • Technology milestoneWorld Wide Web invented by Tim Berners-Lee
  • Defining fadGame Boy
  • Notable inventionGame Boy
  • World population5.19 billion

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderGeorge H.W. Bush
  • Sports championOakland Athletics (World Series)
  • Also wonDetroit Pistons (NBA)
  • U.S. population246.8M

1989 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Liu Zige's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure19892026
Gas$1.02$3.45/gal
Average home$93,100$435,000
Average income$34,213$67,500
Minimum wage$3.35$7.25/hr (federal)
Movie ticket$3.97$11.95
Postage stamp$0.25$0.73
Population246.8M341 million

Sources and editorial standards

This profile combines a biographical source with structured birthday and historical context. Sources recorded for this profile: Wikipedia, International Olympic Committee, Olympedia. See our editorial policy for sourcing, corrections, and review standards.

Read the source biography on Wikipedia. Wikipedia text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.