Kang Yeong-Seo

Who is Kang Yeong-Seo?

Kang Yeong-Seo is a South Korean swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events. Kang qualified for the women's 200 m backstroke, as South Korea's youngest swimmer, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 2:17.10 from the Dong-A Swimming Championships in Ulsan. She won the first heat by two hundredths of a second ahead of Guatemala's Gisela Morales, posting her personal best of 2:14.52. Kang failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed twenty-sixth out of 35 swimmers in the evening preliminaries.