Lim Nam-gyun
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| Nationality |
 South Korea | |||||||||||||||
| Born | 4 March 1987 | |||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 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 won two bronze medals, as a member of the South Korean swimming team, in the men's 400 and 800 m freestyle relay at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar.[2] [3]
Lim qualified for the men's 100 m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 50.82 from the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand.[4] He challenged seven other swimmers on the third heat, including 16-year-olds Virdhawal Khade of India and Christopher Duenas of Guam. He came only in fifth place by three hundredths of a second (0.03) ahead of Uzbekistan's Petr Romashkin, in a time of 51.80 seconds. Lim, however, failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed fifty-fourth out of 64 swimmers in the preliminary heats.[5]
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.
- ↑ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Men's 100m Freestyle" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 7. Retrieved 9 April 2013.
- ↑ "Men's 100m Freestyle Heat 3". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 18 January 2013.