Nam Yoo-sun
South Korean swimmer (born 1985)
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Nam Yoo-sun (Korean: 남유선; born July 23, 1985) is a South Korean swimmer, who specialized in individual medley events.[1][2] She is a three-time Olympian (2000, 2004, and 2008), a fourth-place finalist at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, and a two-time medalist in the individual medley (both 200 and 400 m) at the 2005 East Asian Games in Macau, China.[3] Nam became the first South Korean swimmer in history to reach an Olympic final, until Park Tae-Hwan won the nation's first ever swimming medal at the succeeding Olympics in 2008.
South Korea| Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Nam Yoo-sun | |||||||||||||||||
| National team | South Korea | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 23 July 1985 Seoul, South Korea | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 46 kg (101 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
| Korean name | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hangul | 남유선 | |||||||||||||||||
| RR | Nam Yuseon | |||||||||||||||||
| MR | Nam Yusŏn | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Individual medley | |||||||||||||||||
| Club | Gyeongsangnamdo Sports Council | |||||||||||||||||
| College team | Seoul National University | |||||||||||||||||
| Coach | An Jong-taek | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Nam made her first South Korean team, as a 15-year-old, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she competed in the women's 200 m individual medley. Swimming in heat two, she raced to fourth place and twenty-seventh overall by nearly five seconds behind winner Hana Černá of the Czech Republic in 2:22.53.[4]
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Nam placed seventh in the 400 m individual medley with a time of 4:50.35, edging out Greece's Vasiliki Angelopoulou by exactly half a second (0.50).[5][6]
Eight years after her Olympic debut, Nam qualified for her third South Korean team, as a 23-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She eclipsed a FINA B-standard entry time of 4:52.38 from the Dong-A Swimming Championships in Ulsan.[7] In the 400 m individual medley, she topped the first heat by five seconds ahead of Singapore's Quah Ting Wen with a time of 4:46.74. Nam failed to reach the top 8 final, as she placed twenty-eighth overall in the prelims.[8]
