Yoo Jung-nam (also Yu Jeong-nam, Korean: 유 정남; born 12 September 1983) is a South Korean swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events.[2] He represented his nation South Korea at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has won a career total of four medals (one silver and three bronze) in a major international competition, spanning the 2002 Asian Games and the 2005 East Asian Games.[3][4] Yoo is also a member of the swimming team and a graduate of physical education at Seoul National University.[1]
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| Full name | Yoo Jung-nam | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team |  South Korea | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 12 September 1983 Busan, South Korea | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Butterfly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | Seoul National University[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Yoo competed for the South Korean swimming team in the men's 200 m butterfly at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.[3] Leading up to the Games, he topped the field with a time of 2:00.77 to make the FINA B-cut at the Dong-A Swimming Championships in Ulsan.[5] Rallying from sixth at the 150-metre turn in heat two, Yoo put in a late surge on the final lap to edge out the frontrunners Douglas Lennox-Silva of Puerto Rico and Vladan Marković of Serbia by almost a full-body length for the fourth spot in 2:01.00. Yoo failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-fourth out of 44 swimmers in the prelims.[1][6]
References
edit- ^ a b c "그들은 모두 '영웅'이었다" ["They were all heroes"] (in Korean). Seoul National University. 30 August 2008. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Yoo Jung-nam". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
- ^ a b "[2008 베이징올림픽-수영] 태환아, 펠프스를 말려줘" [2008 Summer Olympics: Tae-hwan could beat Phelps in swimming] (in Korean). The Hankyoreh. 7 August 2008. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
- ^ "Matsuda wins 2nd gold in swimming". The Japan Times. 7 November 2005. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
- ^ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Men's 200m Butterfly" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 37. Retrieved 9 April 2013.
- ^ "Swimming: Men's 200m Butterfly Heat 2". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
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