Shon Jin-hwan (born September 30, 1968) is a retired male

badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racket (sports equipment), racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net (device), net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per s ...

player from

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...

Career

Shon attended

Hannam University Hannam University (한남대학교) is a private Christian university in Daejeon, South Korea. It was founded in 1956. Transition In February 1959, Linton (W.A.) was inaugurated as the first president of Daejeon University. The university has d ...

. He competed in

badminton at the 1992 Summer Olympics Badminton had its debut as an official medal sport at the 1992 Summer Olympics. It was held from 28 July to 4 August 1992. Four events were held in the first competition of the sport: men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, and women's do ...

in men's doubles with

Lee Sang-bok Lee Sang-bok (; born 17 March 1968) is a retired badminton player from South Korea. Career Lee competed in badminton at the 1992 Summer Olympics in the men's doubles with Shon Jin-hwan. They lost in quarterfinals to Rudy Gunawan and Eddy Har ...

. They lost in quarterfinals to

Eddy Hartono Eddy Hartono Arbie (; born 19 July 1964) is an Indonesian former badminton player who excelled in the late 1980s and early 1990s. After a brief stint competing in singles, he soon became a doubles specialist noted for his deft racket control and ...

and

Rudy Gunawan Rudy Gunawan (; born 31 December 1966) is a former Indonesian badminton player who played between 1980s and 1990s. He is arguably one of the best doubles players ever to play for Indonesia. Rudy Gunawan won various international championships, b ...

, of Indonesia, 15-4, 18-15.

Achievements

IBF World Grand Prix

The World Badminton Grand Prix sanctioned by International Badminton Federation (IBF) from 1983 to 2006. ''Men's doubles''

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* * * * 1968 births Living people Badminton players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Hannam University alumni Olympic badminton players of South Korea South Korean male badminton players Asian Games medalists in badminton Badminton players at the 1990 Asian Games Asian Games bronze medalists for South Korea Medalists at the 1990 Asian Games {{SouthKorea-badminton-bio-stub