Kim Yu-yeon (swimmer)
| 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: 김 유연; 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]
References
- ↑ "Kim Yu-yeon". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
- 1 2 "박태환 등 16명 베이징올림픽 수영대표 확정" [Park Tae-hwan leads 16 other swimmers into the Olympic pool] (in Korean). Seoul Broadcasting System. 14 May 2008. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
- ↑ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Women's 100m Backstroke" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 64. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
- ↑ "Swimming: Women's 100m Backstroke Heat 2". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 18 January 2013.