Shin Su-Jong

Who is Shin Su-Jong?

Shin Su-Jong is a South Korean swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events. He won a silver medal, as a member of the South Korean swimming team, in the men's 4×100 m medley relay at the 2006 Asian Championships in Singapore.

Shin qualified for the men's 200 m breaststroke at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 2:15.88 from the FINA World Championships in Melbourne, Australia. He challenged six other swimmers on the second heat, including Portugal's Carlos Almeida and three-time Olympian Jakob Johann Sveinsson of Iceland. He raced to fourth place by 0.31 of a second ahead of Estonia's Martti Aljand, with a time of 2:16.21. Shin failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed forty-third out of 53 swimmers in the preliminary heats.