Park Beom-ho

Park Beom-ho (also Pak Beom-ho, Korean: 박 범호; born May 23, 1988) is a South Korean swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and individual medley events.[1] He represented his nation South Korea at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has won a bronze medal, as a member of the men's 4×200 m freestyle relay team, at the 2006 Asian Championships in Singapore.[2]

Park Beom-ho
Personal information
Full namePark Beom-ho
National team South Korea
Born (1988-05-23) 23 May 1988
Seoul, South Korea
Height1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in)
Weight62 kg (137 lb)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesFreestyle, medley
Medal record
Men's swimming
Representing South Korea
Asian Championships
2006 Singapore 4×200 m freestyle
In this Korean name, the family name is Park.

Park competed for the South Korean swimming team in the men's 200 m individual medley at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.[2] He crushed a sub-2:05 barrier with a new personal best of 2:04.81 to set himself up a fourth seed headed into the final at the Good Luck Beijing China Open six months earlier, finishing under the FINA B-cut (2:05.65) by almost 0.85 of a second.[3][4] Swimming in heat one, Park pulled from behind on the rear of a dominant freestyle leg to beat two-time Olympians Iurii Zakharov of Kyrgyzstan and Danil Bugakov of Uzbekistan by less than a second for the fifth spot in 2:06.17. Park failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed forty-fourth overall in the prelims.[5]

References
  1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Park Beom-ho". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
  2. "[2008 베이징올림픽-수영] 태환아, 펠프스를 말려줘" [2008 Summer Olympics: Tae-hwan could beat Phelps in swimming] (in Korean). The Hankyoreh. 7 August 2008. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
  3. "Olympic Cut Sheet – Men's 200m Individual Medley" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 40. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  4. "Good Luck Beijing China Open: Day Four Prelims". Swimming World Magazine. 3 February 2008. Retrieved 9 April 2013.
  5. "Swimming: Men's 200m Individual Medley Heat 1". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 18 January 2013.


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