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Yoo Jung-nam

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Yoo Jung-nam
Personal information
Full nameYoo Jung-nam
National team South Korea
Born (1983-09-12) 12 September 1983 (age 41)
Busan, South Korea
Height1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight70 kg (154 lb)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesButterfly
College teamSeoul National University[1]
Medal record
Men's swimming
Representing South Korea
Asian Games
Bronze medal – third place 2002 Busan 4×100 m medley
East Asian Games
Silver medal – second place 2005 Macau 4×200 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2005 Macau 200 m butterfly
Bronze medal – third place 2005 Macau 4×100 m medley

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]

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

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  1. ^ a b c "그들은 모두 '영웅'이었다" ["They were all heroes"] (in Korean). Seoul National University. 30 August 2008. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "Matsuda wins 2nd gold in swimming". The Japan Times. 7 November 2005. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
  5. ^ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Men's 200m Butterfly" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 37. Retrieved 9 April 2013.
  6. ^ "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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