Personal information | |
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Nationality | South Korean |
Born | Jungnang-gu, Seoul, South Korea [1] | 17 June 1985
Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) |
Weight | 107 kg (236 lb) |
Korean name | |
Hangul | 원윤종 |
Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Won Yunjong |
McCune–Reischauer | Wŏn Yunjong |
Sport | |
Country | South Korea |
Sport | Bobsleigh (driver) |
Medal record |
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]
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