Kang Yeong-seo
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality |
 South Korea |
| Born | 16 April 1994 |
| Height | 1.55 m (5 ft 1 in) |
| Weight | 39 kg (86 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Backstroke |
This is a Korean name; the family name is Kang.
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 qualified for the women's 200 m backstroke, as South Korea's youngest swimmer (aged 14), at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 2:17.10 from the Dong-A Swimming Championships in Ulsan.[2] She won the first heat by two hundredths of a second (0.02) ahead of Guatemala's Gisela Morales, posting her personal best of 2:14.52. Kang failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed twenty-sixth out of 35 swimmers in the evening preliminaries.[3]
References
- ↑ "Kang Yeong-Seo". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
- ↑ "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.