Yoo Jung-nam

Yoo Jung-nam

Personal information
Full name	Yoo Jung-nam
National team	South Korea
Born	(1983-09-12) 12 September 1983 Busan, South Korea
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	70 kg (154 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Butterfly
College team	Seoul National University
Medal record Men's swimming Representing South Korea Asian Games 2002 Busan 4×100 m medley East Asian Games 2005 Macau 4×200 m freestyle 2005 Macau 200 m butterfly 2005 Macau 4×100 m medley

This is a Korean name; the family name is Yoo.

Yoo Jung-nam (also Yu Jeong-nam, Korean: 유 정남; born 12 September 1983) is a South Korean swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events. 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. Yoo is also a member of the swimming team and a graduate of physical education at Seoul National University.

Yoo competed for the South Korean swimming team in the men's 200 m butterfly at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Leading up to the Games, he topped the field with a blistering 2:00.77 to register under the FINA B-cut at the Dong-A Swimming Championships in Ulsan. Rallying from sixth at the 150-metre turn in heat two, Yoo put up a late resistant 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.

External links

• NBC Olympics Profile