Won Jeong-sik

Won at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Born	(1990-12-09) 9 December 1990 (age 33) 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 World Championships 2017 Anaheim –69 kg 2018 Ashgabat –73 kg

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 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	—	—	—