Jung Won-yong
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| Nationality |
 South Korea | ||||||||||||
| Born |
16 May 1992 Gyeonggi-do, South Korea | ||||||||||||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 74 kg (163 lb) | ||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle, medley | ||||||||||||
| Club | Gyeonggi High School[1] | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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Jung Won-Yong (also Jeong Won-Yong, Korean: 정 원용; born May 16, 1992 in Gyeonggi-do) is a South Korean swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and individual medley events.[1][2] He won a bronze medal, as a member of the South Korean swimming team, in the 400 m freestyle relay at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China.
Jung qualified for two swimming events at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, by eclipsing FINA B-standard entry times of 2:02.50 (200 m individual medley) and 4:18.98 (400 m individual medley) from the FINA World Championships in Shanghai, China.[3][4] In the 400 m individual medley, Jung challenged seven other swimmers on the second heat, including two-time Olympian Raphaël Stacchiotti of Luxembourg. He clinched a fifth spot and twenty-eighth overall by six hundredths of a second (0.06) behind Belarus' Yury Suvorau and Portugal's Diogo Carvalho, outside his entry time of 4:23.12.[5] In his second event, 200 m individual medley, Jung edged out Ukrainian swimmer and double European junior champion Maksym Shemberev of Ukraine to claim a heat one victory by 0.07 of a second, with a time of 2:03.33. Jung failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-second in the preliminary heats.[6]
References
- 1 2 "Jung Won-Yong". London 2012. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
- ↑ "Jung Won-Yong". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
- ↑ "Qualifying Athletes – Men's 200 m individual medley" (PDF). FINA. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
- ↑ "Qualifying Athletes – Men's 400 m individual medley" (PDF). FINA. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
- ↑ "Men's 400m Individual Medley Heat 2". London 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
- ↑ "Men's 200m Individual Medley Heat 1". London 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2013.