Jung Won-Yong
Personal information
Nationality South Korea
Born (1992-05-16) 16 May 1992
Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight74 kg (163 lb)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesFreestyle, medley
ClubGyeonggi High School[1]
Medal record
Men's swimming
Representing  South Korea
Asian Games
Bronze medal – third place2010 Guangzhou 4×100 m freestyle

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. 1 2 "Jung Won-Yong". London 2012. Archived from the original on 18 May 2013. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  2. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Jung Won-Yong". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  3. ↑ "Qualifying Athletes – Men's 200 m individual medley" (PDF). FINA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 November 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
  4. ↑ "Qualifying Athletes – Men's 400 m individual medley" (PDF). FINA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 November 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
  5. ↑ "Men's 400m Individual Medley Heat 2". London 2012. Archived from the original on 2 April 2013. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
  6. ↑ "Men's 200m Individual Medley Heat 1". London 2012. Archived from the original on 10 December 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2013.


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