Nguyễn Hữu Việt

Nguyễn Hữu Việt

Personal information
Full name	Nguyễn Hữu Việt
National team	Vietnam
Born	(1988-10-01) 1 October 1988 Thuy Nguyen, Haiphong, Vietnam
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	80 kg (176 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Breaststroke
Medal record Men's swimming Representing Vietnam Southeast Asian Games 2005 Manila 100 m breaststroke 2007 Bangkok 100 m breaststroke 2009 Vientiane 100 m breaststroke 2009 Vientiane 200 m breaststroke 2003 Hanoi 100 m breaststroke

Nguyễn Hữu Việt (born October 1, 1988) is a Vietnamese swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events. He had won a total of five medals (three golds, one silver, and one bronze), and set numerous records for both the 100 and 200 m breaststroke at the Southeast Asian Games (2003–2009).

Nguyen made his first Vietnamese team, as a 15-year-old, the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he competed in the men's 100 m breaststroke. Swimming in heat three, he rounded out a field of seven swimmers to last place and fifty-second overall by two thirds of a second (0.66) behind Estonia's Aleksander Baldin, with a time of 1:06.70.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Nguyen qualified again for the second time in the 100 m breaststroke. He received a FINA wild card entry by achieving his personal best of 1:03.73 from his gold medal triumph at the 2007 Southeast Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand. Nguyen challenged five other swimmers in heat two, including fellow two-time Olympian Sergiu Postica of Moldova. He raced to fourth place by 0.14 of a second behind Lebanon's Wael Koubrousli in 1:06.36. Nguyen failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed fifty-eighth overall on the first night of the preliminaries.

External links

• NBC Olympics Profile