Kim Yu-yeon (swimmer)

Kim Yu-yeon (Korean: 김유연; born March 16, 1991) is a South Korean swimmer, who specialized in backstroce eventc.[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.

This article is about a swimmer. For the curator, see Kim Yu-yeon (curator). For the sport shooter, see Kim Yoo-yeon.
Kim Yu-yeon
Personal information
Full nameKim Yu-yeon
National team South Korea
Born (1991-03-16) 16 March 1991
Seoul, South Korea
Height1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Weight54 kg (119 lb)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesBackstroke
College teamEwha Womans University
This is a Korean name; the family name is Kim.

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
  1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Kim Yu-yeon". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
  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.
  3. "Olympic Cut Sheet – Women's 100m Backstroke" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 64. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  4. "Swimming: Women's 100m Backstroke Heat 2". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 18 January 2013.


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