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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) | |||||||||||||||||
| 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 Yoo-sun (also Nam Yu-seon, Korean: 남 유선; 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.
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]
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Nam Yu-Seon". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
Original name: 남 유선 / Other name(s): Nam Yoo-Sun
- ^ "NAM Yoosun". Beijing2008.cn. Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games. Archived from the original on 3 June 2009. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
- ^ "Wu and Qi Win Third Gold Apiece, as China Winds Up a Dominant Performance at Asian Games". Swimming World Magazine. 5 October 2002. Archived from the original on 28 December 2013. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
- ^ "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 200m Individual Medley Heat 2" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 323. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 August 2011. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
- ^ Thomas, Stephen (14 August 2004). "Klochkova Wins Her Second Consecutive Olympic 400IM. Sandeno Takes the Silver, Sets a New American Record. Argentina's Bardach Grabs Bronze in S.A. Record". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 3 December 2005. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
- ^ "Women's 400m Individual Medley Final". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 14 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
- ^ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Women's 400m Individual Medley" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 84. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
- ^ "Women's 400m Individual Medley Heat 1". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 18 January 2013.