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

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, 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 Korea National Sport University. He is married to the fellow Olympic weightlifter Yoon Jin-hee, 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

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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 2011 World Weightlifting Championships). 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

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Won, Jeong-sik South Korean male weightlifters Weightlifters at the 2012 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic weightlifters for South Korea 1990 births Living people Weightlifters at the 2010 Asian Games Weightlifters at the 2014 Asian Games Summer World University Games medalists in weightlifting World Weightlifting Championships medalists Weightlifters at the 2018 Asian Games FISU World University Games silver medalists for South Korea Asian Games competitors for South Korea Sportspeople from Gangwon Province, South Korea 21st-century South Korean sportsmen