Noh Seon-yeong

Noh Seon-yeong's career carries a weight that her stat line alone can't convey. A South Korean speed skater who held the national record at 1500 metres and reached four Winter Olympics, she belongs to that demanding world of long-track skating where margins are brutal and careers are long. Four Games is a staggering measure of endurance; staying elite that long takes a stubbornness most people never test in themselves. I respect athletes who keep showing up across an entire decade of cycles, absorbing the disappointments and grinding back. That kind of persistence, more than any single medal, is what I find genuinely admirable about her.

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Name (English)

Noh Seon-yeong

Name (Japanese)

盧善英

Reading

の・そにょん

Born

October 19, 1989 (age 37)

Origin

Seoul, South Korea

Height

172 cm

Occupation

speed skater

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Snake

High school

Seohyun High School

University

Korea National Sport University

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/eunseo_skating/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noh%20Seon-yeong
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9B%A7%E5%96%84%E8%8B%B1
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q498243

Tags

• speed skater

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.