Kang Yeong-seo
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Kang Yeong-seo |
| National team |
 South Korea |
| Born |
16 April 1994 Seoul, South Korea |
| Height | 1.55 m (5 ft 1 in) |
| Weight | 39 kg (86 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Backstroke |
Kang Yeong-seo (also Gang Yeong-seo, Korean: 강 영서; born April 16, 1994) is a South Korean swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events.[1] Kang became one the youngest ever swimmers in history (aged 14) to be selected to the South Korean team at the 2008 Summer Olympics, finishing among the top thirty in the distance dorsal.[2]
Kang competed for the South Korean swimming team in the women's 200 m backstroke at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Leading up to the Games, she blasted the field with a remarkable 2:17.10 to earn her selection to the nation's Olympic team and register under the FINA B-cut (2:17.40) by exactly 0.3 of a second at the Dong-A Swimming Championships in Ulsan.[2][3] Kang touched out the hard-charging Guatemalan swimmer Gisela Morales at the wall by the smallest of margins (0.02) to win the opening heat, posting a new personal best of 2:14.52. Despite her impressive swim from the prelims, Kang fell short of the semifinal field with a twenty-sixth overall position.[4][5]
References
- ↑ "Kang Yeong-Seo". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
- 1 2 "배영 200m 출전 대표팀 막내 14세 강영서 "태환 오빠, 조언 안 해줘요"" [200 m backstroke Kang Yeong-seo makes her appearance as the youngest member of the national swimming team (aged 14), "My brother Jung advised me to change form"] (in Korean). JoongAng Ilbo. 15 July 2008. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
- ↑ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Women's 100m Backstroke" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 67. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
- ↑ "Women's 200m Backstroke Heat 1". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
- ↑ "수영 강영서, 배영 200m 예선 탈락" [Swimming: Kang Yeong-seo is eliminated from the prelims] (in Korean). Korea Economic Daily. 14 August 2008. Retrieved 22 April 2016.