Jung Won-yong, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Jung Won-yong

South Korean swimmer

Date of Birth: 16-May-1992

Place of Birth: Gyeonggi Province, South Korea

Profession: swimmer

Nationality: South Korea

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Jung Won-Yong (also Jeong Won-Yong, Korean: ? ??; born May 16, 1992 in Gyeonggi-do) is a South Korean swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and individual medley events.
He won a bronze medal, as a member of the South Korean swimming team, in the 400 m freestyle relay at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China. Jung qualified for two swimming events at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, by eclipsing FINA B-standard entry times of 2:02.50 (200 m individual medley) and 4:18.98 (400 m individual medley) from the FINA World Championships in Shanghai, China.
In the 400 m individual medley, Jung challenged seven other swimmers on the second heat, including two-time Olympian Raphaël Stacchiotti of Luxembourg.
He clinched a fifth spot and twenty-eighth overall by six hundredths of a second (0.06) behind Belarus' Yury Suvorau and Portugal's Diogo Carvalho, outside his entry time of 4:23.12.
In his second event, 200 m individual medley, Jung edged out Ukrainian swimmer and double European junior champion Maksym Shemberev of Ukraine to claim a heat one victory by 0.07 of a second, with a time of 2:03.33.
Jung failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-second in the preliminary heats.