Won Jeong-sik (Korean: 원정식, born 9 December 1990) is a South Korean weightlifter, Olympian,[1] and World Champion competing in the 69 kg category until 2018 and 73 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.[2]
 Won at the 2016 Olympics | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 9 December 1990 Cheolwon, Gangwon, South Korea |
| Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) |
| Weight | 72.57 kg (160 lb) |
| Spouse | Yoon Jin-hee |
| Sport | |
| Country | South Korea |
| Sport | Weightlifting |
| Event | –73 kg |
| Club | Korea National Sport University |
| Coached by | Ahn Hyo-jak |
Medal record | |
Won took up weightlifting aged 14 and has a degree from the Korea National Sport University. He is married to the fellow Olympic weightlifter Yoon Jin-hee, they have two children.[1][3]
Career edit
Olympics edit
He competed in the 69 kg division at the 2012 Summer Olympics[4] placing 7th overall. In 2016 he competed at the 2016 Olympics in the 69 kg division and placed 8th overall.[5][6]
World Championships edit
In 2017 he competed at the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships where he won the gold medal in the 69 kg division,[7] in doing so he became the first Korean athlete to win a gold medal in this event.[8] This was his first gold medal at the World Weightlifting Championships and his first major medal (he won a bronze medal in the clean & jerk at the 2011 World Weightlifting Championships).
In 2018 the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories and Won competed in the newly created 73 kg division. He competed in the B session, and in the process of winning the silver medal he set a new world record in the clean & jerk with a lift of 195 kg. This was overtaken later in the day by Shi Zhiyong (who would later win the gold medal) with a clean & jerk of 196 kg, done in the A session.[9]
Major results edit
| Year | Venue | Weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | Rank | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | |||||
| Olympic Games | ||||||||||||
| 2012 |  London, United Kingdom |
69 kg | 144 | 11 | 178 | 6 | 322 | 7 | ||||
| 2016 |  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
69 kg | 143 | 9 | 172 | 177 | 9 | 320 | 8 | |||
| World Championships | ||||||||||||
| 2011 |  Paris, France |
69 kg | 140 | 144 | 10 | 177 | 182 |  |
326 | 6 | ||
| 2015 |  Houston, United States |
69 kg | 141 | 14 | — | — | — | |||||
| 2017 | Anaheim, United States |
69 kg | 142 | 146 | 148 |  |
178 |  |
326 |
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| 2018 |  Ashgabat, Turkmenistan |
73 kg | 145 | 150 | 153 | 6 | 180 | 190 | 195 WR | |
348 |
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| Asian Games | ||||||||||||
| 2010 |  Guangzhou, China |
69 kg | 140 | 6 | 170 | 6 | 310 | 6 | ||||
| 2014 |  Incheon, South Korea |
69 kg | 143 | 6 | 170 | — | 10 | 313 | 6 | |||
| 2018 |  Jakarta, Indonesia |
69 kg | 145 | 5 | — | — | — | |||||
References edit
- ^ a b Jeongsik Won. nbcolympics.com
- ^ PDF listing of 2018 Group A world championship entrants in 73 kg
- ^ "Rio 2016: S. Korean Yoon Jin-hee wins bronze in women's weightlifting". The Korea Times. 8 August 2016. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
- ^ Jeongsik Won. London 2012
- ^ Won Jeong-Sik. sports-reference.com
- ^ "WON Jeongsik". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 18 August 2016. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
- ^ Inside The Games (December 2017). "South Korea's Won claims men's 69kg title as home hope Cummings Jr bombs out at 2017 IWF World Championships". Retrieved 31 December 2018.
- ^ IWF.net (3 December 2017). "Won Won". Retrieved 31 December 2018.
- ^ IWF.net (4 November 2018). "China won Gold – once again". Retrieved 31 December 2018.
External links edit
- Won Jeong-sik at the International Weightlifting Federation
- Won Jeong-sik at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
