Yoon Cheul ( ko, 윤철, also known as Yun Cheol, born 3 January 1971) is a South Korean former sailor, who specialized in the two-person dinghy (

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) class. He copped a bronze medal in the inaugural match-race keelboat at the

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and was named one of the country's top sailors in the double-handed dinghy for two editions of the Summer Olympic Games (1992 and 2008), finishing each distantly within the top 25 range, respectively. A member of Boryeong City Hall's sailing club in

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's coastline, Yoon trained most of his sporting career under the national federation's head coach for the men's 470, three-time Olympian Petri Leskinen from Finland. Yoon made his Olympic debut, as a 21-year-old, in

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. There, he and eventual four-time Olympian Jung Sung-ahn accumulated a satisfying net grade of 145 to obtain the twenty-second overall position from a fleet of 37 registered crews in the men's 470 class. Sixteen years after his maiden Games, Yoon led the inexperienced South Korean sailing squad and competed for the second time, as a 37-year-old skipper in the men's 470 class, at the

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. He and his new partner

Kim Hyeong-tae Kim Hyeong-tae ( ko, 김 형태; born 24 April 1971) is a South Korean former sailor, who specialized in the two-person dinghy ( 470) class. Together with his partner and two-time Olympian Yoon Cheul, he received a bronze medal in the inaugura ...

topped the selection criteria for the country's 470 slot in a three-way battle with double Asian Games champions Kim Dae-young and Jung Sung-ahn and quota recipients Kim Chang-ju and

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, based on their cumulative scores attained in a series of international regattas approved by the Korea Sailing Federation. The Korean pair clearly struggled to catch a vast fleet of world sailors under breezy conditions in the initial half of the series, until they found solace to pull off a blistering top-three mark in race 7, trailing the Belarusians and the Americans. Another set of poor performances towards the final stretch, however, pushed both Yoon and Kim to the near end of the 29-crew fleet, sitting them in twenty-fifth overall with 180 net points.

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Yoon, Cheul 1971 births Living people South Korean male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for South Korea Sailors at the 1992 Summer Olympics – 470 Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – 470 Asian Games medalists in sailing Sailors at the 1994 Asian Games Sailors at the 2006 Asian Games Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games Asian Games bronze medalists for South Korea People from Yeosu Sportspeople from South Jeolla Province