Nationality South Korea Strokes Individual medley | Weight 64 kg (141 lb) Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Name Kim Seo-yeong | |
Born 17 March 1994 (age 30) ( 1994-03-17 ) Gyeonggi-do, South Korea | ||
Kim Seo-Yeong (Korean: κΉ μμ; born March 17, 1994 in Gyeonggi-do) is a South Korean swimmer, who specialized in individual medley events. Kim broke a South Korean record of 2:13.65 to take the bronze medal in the 200 m individual medley at the 2009 East Asian Games in Hong Kong, China.
Kim qualified for the women's 400 m individual medley at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 4:46.56 from the Dong-A Swimming Championships in Ulsan. She topped the second heat by nearly two seconds ahead of seven other swimmers, including former bronze medalists Sara Nordenstam of Norway and four-time Olympian Georgina Bardach of Argentina, breaking her personal best of 4:43.99. Kim's overwhelming triumph was not enough to advance her into the final, as she placed seventeenth overall in the preliminary heats.