Won Jeong-sik (, born 9 December 1990) is a South Korean weightlifter, Olympian,Jeongsik Won. nbcolympics.com and World Champion competing in the 69 kg category until 2018 and 73 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.PDF listing of 2018 Group A world championship entrants in 73 kg
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 2012 Summer OlympicsJeongsik Won. London 2012 placing 7th overall. In 2016 he competed at the 2016 Olympics in the 69 kg division and placed 8th overall.Won Jeong-Sik. sports-reference.com
World Championships In 2017 he competed at the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships where he won the gold medal in the 69 kg division, in doing so he became the first Korean athlete to win a gold medal in this event. This was his first gold medal at the World Weightlifting Championships and his first major medal (he won a bronze medal in the clean & jerk at the 2011 World Weightlifting Championships).
In 2018 the International Weightlifting Federation 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 world record 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 Year Venue Weight Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total Rank 1 2 3 Rank 1 2 3 RankOlympic Games2012 London, United Kingdom 69 kg 144 146 147 11 178 186 187 6 322 72016 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 69 kg 143 143 146 9 172 177 180 9 320 8World Championships2011 Paris, France 69 kg 140 144 147 10 177 182 185 326 62015 Houston, United States 69 kg 141 147 147 14 171 171 171 — — — 2017 Anaheim, United States 69 kg 142 146 148 178 178 181 326 2018 Ashgabat, Turkmenistan 73 kg 145 150 153 6 180 190 195 WR 348 Asian Games2010 Guangzhou, China 69 kg 140 145 145 6 170 181 181 6 310 6 2014 Incheon, South Korea 69 kg 143 148 148 6 170 183 — 10 313 62018 Jakarta, Indonesia 69 kg 145 145 148 5 180 180 186 — — —
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