Won Jeong-sik

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 Jeong-sik

Won at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Born	9 December 1990 Cheolweon, Gangwon, South Korea
Height	1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight	72.57 kg (160 lb)
Spouse(s)	Yoon Jin-hee
Sport
Country	South Korea
Sport	Weightlifting
Event(s)	–73 kg
Club	Korea National Sport University
Coached by	Ahn Hyo-jak
Medal record World Championships 2017 Anaheim –69 kg 2018 Ashgabat –73 kg

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

Olympics

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

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

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	146	147	11	178	186	187	6	322	7
2016	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	69 kg	143	143	146	9	172	177	180	9	320	8
World Championships
2011	Paris, France	69 kg	140	144	147	10	177	182	185		326	6
2015	Houston, United States	69 kg	141	147	147	14	171	171	171	—	—	—
2017	Anaheim, United States	69 kg	142	146	148		178	178	181		326
2018	Ashgabat, Turkmenistan	73 kg	145	150	153	6	180	190	195 WR		348
Asian Games
2010	Guangzhou, China	69 kg	140	145	145	6	170	181	181	6	310	6
2014	Incheon, South Korea	69 kg	143	148	148	6	170	183	—	10	313	6
2018	Jakarta, Indonesia	69 kg	145	145	148	5	180	180	186	—	—	—

References

1. Jeongsik Won. nbcolympics.com
2. PDF listing of 2018 Group A world championship entrants in 73 kg
3. "Rio 2016: S. Korean Yoon Jin-hee wins bronze in women's weightlifting". The Korea Times. 8 August 2016. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
4. Jeongsik Won. London 2012
5. Won Jeong-Sik. sports-reference.com
6. "WON Jeongsik". Rio 2016. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
7. Inside The Games. "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.
8. IWF.net. "Won Won". Retrieved 31 December 2018.
9. IWF.net. "China won Gold – once again". Retrieved 31 December 2018.

External links

• Won Jeong-sik at the International Weightlifting Federation
• Won Jeong-sik at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)