Shin Su-jong explained

Shin Su-jong
Fullname:Shin Su-jong
Strokes:Breaststroke
Birth Date:15 February 1988
Birth Place:Asan, South Korea
Height:1.86m (06.1feet)
Weight:710NaN0
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Shin Su-jong (also Sin Su-jong, Korean: 신 수종; born February 15, 1988) is a South Korean swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.[1] He represented his nation South Korea at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has won a silver medal, as a member of the men's 4 × 100 m medley relay team, at the 2006 Asian Championships in Singapore.[2] [3]

Shin competed for the South Korean swimming team in the men's 200 m breaststroke at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.[2] He finished outside the semifinal time in 2:15.88 to slide under the FINA B-cut (2:18.37) at the World Championships one year earlier in Melbourne, Australia.[4] [5] Rallying from sixth at the 150-metre turn in heat two, Shin fought off a three-way sprint challenge from Miguel Molina of the Philippines and Martti Aljand of Estonia on the final lap to snatch the fourth spot in 2:16.21. Shin failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed forty-third out of 53 swimmers in the prelims.[6]

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Notes and References

  1. Shin Su-jong. https://web.archive.org/web/20200417233527/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/si/sin-su-jong-1.html. dead. 17 April 2020. 18 January 2013.
  2. News: [2008 베이징올림픽-수영] 태환아, 펠프스를 말려줘]. 2008 Summer Olympics: Tae-hwan could beat Phelps in swimming. ko. The Hankyoreh. 7 August 2008. 22 April 2016.
  3. News: 신수종, 범태평양 수영선수권서 한국신. Shin Su-jong breaks Korean mark at the Pan Pacific Championships. ko. Asan Today. 22 August 2006. 3 May 2016.
  4. Web site: Olympic Cut Sheet – Men's 200m Breaststroke. PDF. 31. Swimming World Magazine. 9 April 2013.
  5. Web site: 2007 FINA World Championships (Melbourne, Australia) – Men's 200m Breaststroke Heats. PDF. Omega Timing. 11 February 2013.
  6. Web site: Swimming: Men's 200m Breaststroke Heat 2 . . . 18 January 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120821003419/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/swimming/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DSWM032900/index.html . 21 August 2012 .