Yoo Won-jeong is a South Korean

paralympic The Paralympic Games or Paralympics is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of disabilities. There are Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, which since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Kore ...

boccia player. He participated at the

2016 Summer Paralympics The 2016 Summer Paralympics (), the 15th Summer Paralympic Games, were a major international multi-sport event for disabled sports, athletes with disabilities governed by the International Paralympic Committee, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, f ...

in the

boccia Boccia ( ) is a precision ball sport, similar to bocce, and related to bowls and pétanque. The name "boccia" is derived from the Latin word for "boss" – '. The sport is contested at local, national and international levels, by athletes w ...

competition, being awarded the

bronze medal A bronze medal in sports and other similar areas involving competition is a medal made of bronze awarded to the third-place finisher of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc. The outright winner receives ...

in the individual BC1 event.

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* Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) South Korean boccia players Boccia players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Paralympic medalists in boccia Paralympic boccia players for South Korea Paralympic bronze medalists for South Korea 21st-century South Korean people {{SouthKorea-Paralympic-medalist-stub