Won Jeong-sik (, born 9 December 1990) is a South Korean

weightlifter Olympic weightlifting, or Olympic-style weightlifting (officially named Weightlifting), is a sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with each athlete trying to successfully lift ...

, Olympian,Jeongsik Won
nbcolympics.com and World Champion competing in the 69 kg category until 2018 and 73 kg starting in 2018 after the

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reorganized the categories. Won took up weightlifting aged 14 and has a degree from the

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. He is married to the fellow Olympic weightlifter

Yoon Jin-hee Yoon Jin-Hee (Hangul: 윤진희, Hanja: 尹眞熙, ; born August 4, 1986 in Wonju, Gangwon-do (South Korea), Gangwon-do) is a South Korean Olympic weightlifting, weightlifter. Career She ranked 3rd in the Women's 58 kg at the 2005 Junior ...

, they have two children.

Career

Olympics

He competed in the 69 kg division at the

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Jeongsik Won
London 2012 placing 7th overall. In 2016 he competed at the

2016 Olympics ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro ...

in the 69 kg division and placed 8th overall.Won Jeong-Sik
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World Championships

In 2017 he competed at the

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where he won the gold medal in the 69 kg division, in doing so he became the first

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athlete to win a gold medal in this event. This was his first gold medal at the

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and his first major medal (he won a bronze medal in the clean & jerk at the

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). In 2018 the

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

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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.

Major results

References

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