Jung Soon-won

Jung Soon- won ( born October 12, 1973) is a former South Korean wrestler. It was founded in 1994 Vice World Champion in free style in the light flyweight.

Career

Jung Soon -won started as a teenager in 1986 with the rings. He concentrated on the free style and was a member of Samsung Life Sports Club Seoul. His coach was You In - tak. He started at a size of 1.60 meters in the lightest weight category of the men's wrestling, the flyweight, which in his time had a weight limit of 48 kg body weight. Later he started in the flyweight ( 52 kg and 54 kg body weight).

His international career as a wrestler, he began in 1993. He finished it at the Asian Championship in Ulan Bator in the light flyweight the 4th Place. Just one year later, in 1994, he then succeeded the greatest success at the World Championships in Istanbul in his career, because he was there behind Alexis Vila Cuban Vice World Champion.

1995 was also Asia champion in the light flyweight before Masanori Toita from Japan and Zuunbayan Tumendemberel from Mongolia Jung Soon -won in Manila. At the World Championships this year in Atlanta, he was not very successful, for he came only to 13th place there. A year later, he missed at the Olympic Games in Atlanta with a 5th place just a medal. He defeated Vladimir Torgowkin there, Kyrgyzstan and Luvsan Sergelenbaatar, Mongolia, lost to Kim Il -ong, North Korea and Wugar Orudschow, Russia, and yet triumphed over Vitaly Railean from Moldova. In December 1996 he won at the Universities World Cup in Tehran flyweight with a third place behind Gholamreza Mohammadi, Iran and Herman Kontojew, Belarus, the bronze medal.

In the following years he won no medals at international championships. In 1997, he finished 4th in the Asia flyweight championship. At the World Cup in 1998 in Tehran, he came flyweight with two wins and two defeats on the 9th Place and in the Asian Games in Bangkok in 1998, he took again a 4th place.

International success

Notes

  • All competitions in free style
  • OS = The Olympic Games, WM = World Cup
  • Light flyweight weight class up to 48 kg Flyweight, 52 kg to 1996, then to 54 kg body weight

Swell

  • Journal The Ringer
  • Website " Foeldeak Wrestling Database "
Weight class (boxing) 1994 World Wrestling Championships 1995 World Wrestling Championships Wrestling at the 1996 Summer Olympics 1998 World Wrestling Championships Bulgaria Greece Maulen Mamyrov
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