Jung Jin-Hwa (also Jeong Jin-Hwa, ko, 정진화; born May 25, 1989, in

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) is a

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from South Korea. He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in

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, where he finished eleventh in the men's event, tying for the best result for a South Korean with Kim Mi-Seop at

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in 1996. Jung also won an individual bronze medal at the

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in Rome, Italy, finishing behind the Russians, world champion

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and two-time Olympic champion Andrey Moiseev. At the

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, he finished in 13th place.

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