Chun Byung-kwan

Chun Byung- kwan (born 4 November 1969 Jinan, Jeollabuk -do ) is a former South Korean weightlifter. He was 1992 Olympic champion in the bantamweight.

Career

Chun Byung- kwan began as a teenager with weight lifting. He developed enormously quickly and took in the year 1986 as a 17 -year-old high school student in a World Championship of seniors participate. He started in Sofia flyweight and achieved in a duel 240 kg ( 107.5 to 132.5 ), with whom he finished in 6th place. Just one year later, at the World Championships in Ostrava, he won his first medal at a senior world championship. He made there 135 kg in the jerk and won with this performance, the World Cup bronze medal. In the duel, he came again to 240 kg ( 105-135 ), which reached there on 4th Place.

Meanwhile, a student in Seoul, he qualified in 1988 for participation in the Olympic Games in the city. He was able to increase his battle power to 260 kg ( 112.5 to 147.5 ) and he won with this performance, the Olympic silver medal behind the Bulgarians Sewdalin Marinov, 270 kg ( 120-150 ) scored and sent the Chinese He Zhuoqiang, 257.5 kg ( 112.5 to 145 ) to 3rd place.

In 1989, Chun Byung- kwan in Fort Lauderdale / Florida 275 kg ( 120-155 ) junior world champion bantamweight before Albert Nasibulin from the USSR who came to 270 kg, and Luo Jianming, China, 267.5 kg ( 122.5 -145 ). The same duel performance, he scored 1989 in the Senior World Championships in Athens. There, this performance was enough only for fifth place. With its power and jerk of 155 kg, it won in this discipline, but the World Cup silver medal.

In 1990 he won at the Asian Games in Beijing in the bantamweight and referred to Liu Shoubin and Luo Jianming two favorite Chinese places 2 and 3 but the Chinese retaliated then at the World Championships in Budapest, because there won Liu Shoubin with 285 kg ( 130-155 ) before He Yingqiang 285 kg ( 125-160 ). They left Chun Byung- kwan with 277.5 kg ( 122.5 to 155 ) only the third place, which was for him but still a great success.

An even bigger success was Chun Byung- kwan at the 1991 World Championships in Donaueschingen. With an enormous increase in output to 295 kg ( 130-165 ), to which the Chinese Liu Shoubin, who scored 292.5 kg ( 135 to 157.5 ) forced him, he became world champion in single combat and in pushing the Bantam weight for the first time. A year later he also triumphed at the Olympic Games in Barcelona. There, he scored Bantamweight 287.5 kg ( 132.5 to 155 ), with which he reached before the superior in Barcelona in no good shape located ligand Liu Shoubin, the only 277.5 kilograms ( 130 to 147.5 ) and Luo Jianming, who also came to 277.5 kg ( 125 to 152.5 ), won the gold medal. In the exuberance of his Olympic victory Chun tried by the jointed 155 kg to push twice with 170 kg world record, but failed twice scarce.

In 1993, there were by the International Weightlifting Federation a weight class reform. The bantamweight, which until 1992 had its weight limit at 56 kg now reached to 59 kg body weight. The result was that the previous Bantamgewichtler had to either work off in the flyweight, which went from 1993-54 kg or, if they had not managed in the new bantamweight title against former featherweight take that work off of 60 kg only 59 kg had to start bantamweight can. Chun Byung- kwan decided to continue to compete in the weight category to 59 kg. At the 1993 World Championships in Melbourne, he managed in this class in a duel 292.5 kg ( 130 to 162.5 ) with whom he came to 4th place behind the former featherweight learning Nikolaj Peschalow, Bulgaria, 302.5 kg ( 135 - 167.5 ), Hafiz Suleymanoglu, Turkey, 295 kg ( 135-160 ) and Tang Ling Sheng, China, 292.5 kg ( 130 to 162.5 ) remained.

1994 won Chun Byung- kwan again at the Asian Games, which were held in Hiroshima. He remained in the bantamweight before Tang Ling Sheng and Hiroshi Ikebata, from Japan. at the World Championships in Istanbul, he reached 287.5 kg ( 127.5 to 160 ) again the 4th Place. In 1995 he celebrated then at the World Championships in Guangzhou once again a great success, because he was there with the personal best of 300 kg ( 135-165 ) behind Leonidas Sabanis from Greece, 302.5 kg ( 137.5 to 165 ), Vice- world featherweight champion.

At the end of his career he started again at the Olympic Games in Atlanta. After 135 kg in the snatch him under there but ran in collision with 165 kg and 167.5 kg twice with a total of three failed attempts, so he remained unplaced without duel performance. Despite the unfortunate outcome of this competition Chun Byung- kwan can look back on an extremely successful career.

Since the end of his career, he is often seen as an expert in sports programs in the Korean television, where he is very popular because of its knowledgeable and humorous comments from the audience.

International success

World Cup individual medals

  • World Championship gold medals: 1991/Stoßen
  • World Championship silver medals: 1989/Stoßen
  • World Cup bronze medals: 1987/Stoßen - 1990/Stoßen - 1991/Reißen - 1994/Stoßen

Notes

  • All competitions in a duel, consisting of tearing and piercing,
  • OS = The Olympic Games,
  • WM = World Championships,
  • Flyweight, then to 52 kg body weight,
  • Bantamweight until 1992-56 kg from 1993-59 kg body weight
  • No more World Championship medals will be awarded in 1988 at the Olympic Games

Swell

  • Journal athletics,
  • Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig,
  • Website " weigthliftingexchange.com "
  • Website " sports123.com "
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