Kim Yu-yeon (swimmer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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South Korean swimmer
Date of Birth: 16-Mar-1991
Place of Birth: Seoul, South Korea
Profession: swimmer
Nationality: South Korea
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Kim Yu-yeon (swimmer)
- Kim Yu-yeon (Korean: ? ??; born March 16, 1991) is a South Korean swimmer, who specialized in backstroce eventc.
- She represented her nation South Korea at the 2008 Summer Olympics, finishing among the top fifty swimmers in the sprint dorsal.
- Kim is also a graduate of Ewha Womans University. Kim competed for the South Korean swimming team in the women's 100 m backstroke at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
- Leading up to the Games, she topped the field with a new national mark of 1:03.82 to earn her selection to the Olympic team and register under the FINA B-cut (1:03.86) by four hundredths of a second at the Dong-A Swimming Championships in Ulsan.
- Rallying from last out of six entrants at the initial length in heat two, Kim fought off a sprint challenge from 13-year-old Kazakh swimmer Yekaterina Rudenko on the final stretch to touch the wall with a fifth-place time in 1:04.63.
- Kim failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed forty-fourth overall in the prelims.
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