Kim Yu-yeon (swimmer)
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South KoreaSeoul, South Korea
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Kim Yu-yeon |
| National team | South Korea |
| Born | 16 March 1991 Seoul, South Korea |
| Height | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) |
| Weight | 54 kg (119 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Backstroke |
| College team | Ewha Womans University |
Kim Yu-yeon (Korean: 김유연; born March 16, 1991) is a South Korean swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events.[1] She represented her nation South Korea at the 2008 Summer Olympics, finishing among the top fifty swimmers in the sprint dorsal.[2] Kim is also a graduate of Ewha Womans University.
Kim competed for the South Korean swimming team in the women's 100 m backstroke at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.[2] Leading up to the Games, she topped the field with a new national mark of 1:03.82 to earn her selection to the Olympic team and register under the FINA B-cut (1:03.86) by four hundredths of a second at the Dong-A Swimming Championships in Ulsan.[3] Rallying from last out of six entrants at the initial length in heat two, Kim fought off a sprint challenge from 13-year-old Kazakh swimmer Yekaterina Rudenko on the final stretch to touch the wall with a fifth-place time in 1:04.63. Kim failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed forty-fourth overall in the prelims.[4]
