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Won Yun-jong

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Won Yun-jong
Personal information
NationalitySouth Korean
Born (1985-06-17) 17 June 1985 (age 39)
Jungnang-gu, Seoul, South Korea[1]
Height1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight107 kg (236 lb)
Korean name
Hangul
원윤종
Hanja
Revised RomanizationWon Yunjong
McCune–ReischauerWŏn Yunjong
Sport
Country South Korea
Sport Bobsleigh (driver)
Medal record
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2018 Pyeongchang Four-man

Won Yun-jong (born 17 June 1985) is a South Korean bobsledder.[3]

Won competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics for South Korea. He teamed with brakeman Seo Young-woo in the South Korea-1 sled in the two-man event, finishing 18th, and with Seo, Jun Jung-lin and Suk Young-ji in the four-man, finishing 20th.[4][5]

As of 2017, his best showing at the World Championships is 5th, in the two-man event in 2015.[3]

Won made his World Cup debut in December 2010. As of 2017, his best World Cup finish is 1st, in 2015-16 at Whistler and Konigssee, Germany.[3] He was the overall champion of the 2015-16 season for the two-man category.

Along with teammate Seo, Won placed sixth out of 30 teams in the two-man event at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang on 19 February, recording an overall time of 3:17.40 in four runs. Although they failed to win a medal, it was the best Olympic result by an Asian bobsleigh team.[6] The following week, on 25 February, the South Korean four-man team of pilot Won, Seo, Kim Dong-hyun and Jun Jung-lin won a surprising silver medal in the four-man event, tying with a German team led by Nico Walther. With the silver medal, South Korea became the first Asian nation to claim an Olympic medal in a bobsleigh event.[7]

References

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  1. ^ "봅슬레이 원윤종은 '중랑의 아들' 평창올림픽 봅슬레이 4인승 은메달 면일초, 중화중, 면목고등학교 졸업중랑구, 원윤종 선수에 격려금 전달". 중랑신문 (in Korean). 16 March 2018. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
  2. ^ "信的力量" [The Power of Belief]. Dong-a Ilbo. 3 March 2016. Retrieved 6 July 2016.
  3. ^ a b c "Yunjong Won". FIBT. Archived from the original on 31 December 2013.
  4. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Won Yun-Jong". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
  5. ^ "Yunjong WON". Sochi2014. Sochi 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Organizing Committee. Archived from the original on 19 March 2014.
  6. ^ Yoon, Hyung-jun (20 February 2018). "Two-Man Bobsleigh Team Achieves Korea's Best Olympic Result". The Chosun Ilbo.
  7. ^ "Silver Win for S. Korea 4-Man Bobsleigh". Korean Broadcasting System. 25 February 2018.
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Olympic Games
Preceded by Flagbearer for  Korea
2018 Pyeongchang
(with Hwang Chung-gum)
Succeeded by
Incumbent