Nam Yoo-sun (also ''Nam Yu-seon'', ; born July 23, 1985) is a South Korean swimmer, who specialized in individual medley events. She is a three-time Olympian (2000, 2004, and 2008), a fourth-place finalist at the

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, and a two-time medalist in the individual medley (both 200 and 400 m) at the

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. Nam became the first South Korean swimmer in history to reach an Olympic final, until Park Tae-Hwan won the nation's first ever swimming medal at the succeeding Olympics in 2008. Nam made her first South Korean team, as a 15-year-old, at the

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, where she competed in the women's 200 m individual medley. Swimming in heat two, she raced to fourth place and twenty-seventh overall by nearly five seconds behind winner

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of the Czech Republic in 2:22.53. At the

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, Nam placed seventh in the 400 m individual medley with a time of 4:50.35, edging out Greece's

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by exactly half a second (0.50). Eight years after her Olympic debut, Nam qualified for her third South Korean team, as a 23-year-old, at the

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. She eclipsed a FINA B-standard entry time of 4:52.38 from the Dong-A Swimming Championships in

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. In the 400 m individual medley, she topped the first heat by five seconds ahead of Singapore's

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with a time of 4:46.74. Nam failed to reach the top 8 final, as she placed twenty-eighth overall in the prelims.

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