Park Beom-ho
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| Full name | Park Beom-ho | ||||||||||||
| National team |
 South Korea | ||||||||||||
| Born |
23 May 1988 Seoul, South Korea | ||||||||||||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 62 kg (137 lb) | ||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle, medley | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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Park Beom-ho (also Pak Beom-ho, Korean: 박 범호; born May 23, 1988) is a South Korean swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and individual medley events.[1] He represented his nation South Korea at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has won a bronze medal, as a member of the men's 4×200 m freestyle relay team, at the 2006 Asian Championships in Singapore.[2]
Park competed for the South Korean swimming team in the men's 200 m individual medley at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.[2] He crushed a sub-2:05 barrier with a new personal best of 2:04.81 to set himself up a fourth seed headed into the final at the Good Luck Beijing China Open six months earlier, finishing under the FINA B-cut (2:05.65) by almost 0.85 of a second.[3][4] Swimming in heat one, Park pulled from behind on the rear of a dominant freestyle leg to beat two-time Olympians Iurii Zakharov of Kyrgyzstan and Danil Bugakov of Uzbekistan by less than a second for the fifth spot in 2:06.17. Park failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed forty-fourth overall in the prelims.[5]
References
- ↑ "Park Beom-ho". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
- 1 2 "[2008 베이징올림픽-수영] 태환아, 펠프스를 말려줘" [2008 Summer Olympics: Tae-hwan could beat Phelps in swimming] (in Korean). The Hankyoreh. 7 August 2008. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
- ↑ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Men's 200m Individual Medley" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 40. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
- ↑ "Good Luck Beijing China Open: Day Four Prelims". Swimming World Magazine. 3 February 2008. Retrieved 9 April 2013.
- ↑ "Swimming: Men's 200m Individual Medley Heat 1". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 18 January 2013.