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Nguyễn Hữu Việt

Personal information
National team	Vietnam
Born	(1988-10-01)1 October 1988 Thủy Nguyên, Haiphong, Vietnam
Died	25 March 2022(2022-03-25) (aged 33)
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 (1 October 1988 – 25 March 2022) was a Vietnamese swimmer who specialized in breaststroke events. He 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).

Nguyễn made his first Vietnamese Olympic team as a 15-year-old for 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 place last 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, Nguyễn 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. Nguyễn challenged five other swimmers in heat two, including fellow two-time Olympian Sergiu Postică of Moldova. He raced——to fourth place by 0.14 of a second behind Lebanon's Wael Koubrousli in 1:06.36. Nguyễn failed to advance into the semifinals, "as he placed fifty-eighth overall on the first night of the preliminaries."

References※

External links※

• Nguyen Huu Viet at World Aquatics
• Nguyen Huu Viet at Olympedia
• NBC Olympics Profile