Nam Dong-Hong (also ''Nam Dong-Hun'', ; born May 1, 1984, in

Daegu Daegu (; ), formerly spelled Taegu and officially Daegu Metropolitan City (), is a city in southeastern South Korea. It is the third-largest urban agglomeration in South Korea after Seoul and Busan; the fourth-largest List of provincial-level ci ...

) is a South Korean

modern pentathlete The modern pentathlon is an Olympic multisport that consists of five events: fencing (one-touch épée followed by direct elimination), freestyle swimming, obstacle course racing, laser pistol shooting, and cross country running. The sport wa ...

. He is also a silver medalist at the 2008 Korean Open & Asian Championships in

Seoul Seoul, officially Seoul Special Metropolitan City, is the capital city, capital and largest city of South Korea. The broader Seoul Metropolitan Area, encompassing Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon, emerged as the world's List of cities b ...

, and is currently ranked no. 123 in the world by the

Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne The International Modern Pentathlon Union (''Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne),'' commonly known by the acronym UIPM, has been the international governing body of modern pentathlon since its foundation in London in 1948. Its headquar ...

(UIPM). Nam qualified for the

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, where he competed in the men's modern pentathlon, along with his teammate

Lee Choon-Huan Lee Choon-Huan (; born May 9, 1980) is a two-time Olympic modern pentathlete from South Korea. He won a gold medal for the team relay, and an individual silver at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China. Lee also led his team to win the silver m ...

. During the competition, Nam struggled in the early segments, with poor scores in

pistol shooting Shooting sports is a group of competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in shooting — the art of using ranged weapons, mainly small arms (firearms and airguns, in forms such ...

and a one-touch

épée The (, ; ), also rendered as epee in English, is the largest and heaviest of the three weapons used in the sport of fencing. The modern derives from the 19th-century , a weapon which itself derives from the French small sword. This contains a ...

fencing. He managed to attain a sixteenth-place finish in freestyle swimming, but displayed a weak performance in the riding segment, when he completed the show jumping course in thirtieth place, and incurred a total of 380 penalties (both obstacle and time). In the cross-country running segment, Nam finished the 3 km race, with a fastest time and an Olympic record of 8:55.57. Nam's best result in the last round, however, was insufficiently enough to reach the top position, finishing only in twenty-eighth place with a score of 4,968 points.

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UIPM Profile
South Korean male modern pentathletes 1984 births Living people Olympic modern pentathletes for South Korea Modern pentathletes at the 2008 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Daegu South Korean Buddhists 21st-century South Korean sportsmen {{SouthKorea-modern-pentathlon-bio-stub