Lim Nam-gyun
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| Full name | Lim Nam-gyun | |||||||||||||||
| National team |
 South Korea | |||||||||||||||
| Born |
4 March 1987 Incheon, South Korea | |||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||||
| Weight | 68 kg (150 lb) | |||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Lim Nam-gyun (also Im Nam-gyun, Korean: 임 남균; born March 4, 1987) is a South Korean swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.[1] He represented his nation South Korea at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has won two bronze medals, as a member of the men's 400 and 800 m freestyle relay teams at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar.[2] [3]
Lim competed for the South Korean swimming team in the men's 100 m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.[4][5] Leading up to the Games, he finished outside the top-eight final time in 50.82 to set a new national mark and register under the FINA B-cut (50.95) by 0.13 of a second at the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand.[6] Coming from sixth at the halfway turn in heat three, Lim edged out the Uzbek swimmer Petr Romashkin by just 0.03 of a second on the final stretch to hit the wall with a fifth-place time in 51.80, almost a second off his entry mark. Lim failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed fifty-fourth out of 64 swimmers in the prelims.[7]
References
- ↑ "Lim Nam-gyun". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
- ↑ Marsteller, Jason (4 December 2006). "China Women, Japan Men Dominate Third Day of Asian GamesGames". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
- ↑ Marsteller, Jason (5 December 2006). "Japan Blazes to Asian Record Time in Men's 400 Free Relay at Asian Games". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
- ↑ "<고침> 체육(박태환 훈련 파트너 임남균 "내게도 꿈은 있다")" [Sports: Park Tae-hwan's training partner Lim Nam-gyun wants to fulfill a dream] (in Korean). Yonhap. 19 July 2009. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
- ↑ "[2008 베이징올림픽-수영] 태환아, 펠프스를 말려줘" [2008 Summer Olympics: Tae-hwan could beat Phelps in swimming] (in Korean). The Hankyoreh. 7 August 2008. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
- ↑ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Men's 100m Freestyle" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 7. Retrieved 9 April 2013.
- ↑ "Swimming: Men's 100m Freestyle Heat 3". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 18 January 2013.