Park Hyung-jun

Park Hyung-jun
Personal information
Full name Park Hyung-jun
Nationality  South Korea
Born (1983-04-29) 29 April 1983
Gyeongsangbuk-do, South
Korea
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 70 kg (154 lb)
Sport
Sport Athletics
Event(s) Triple jump
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s) Triple jump: 16.66 (2004)
This is a Korean name; the family name is Park.

Park Hyung-jun (also Park Hyeong-jin, Korean: 박 형진; born April 29, 1983 in Gyeongsangbuk-do) is a South Korean triple jumper.[1] He represented South Korea at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and also spanned his best jump of 16.66 metres from the men's college national championships at Chungbuk Science High School in Jecheon.[2]

Park qualified for the South Korean squad in the men's triple jump at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Four months before the Games, he set a career personal best and an Olympic B-standard jump of 16.66 metres at the college national championships in Jecheon to secure a berth on the South Korean athletics team.[2][3] Park got off to a rugged start with a foul until he spanned a top qualifying jump of 15.84 on his second attempt, falling short of a personal best by 82 centimetres. Since his third jump spurred another foul, Park ended up in thirty-ninth against an immense roster of forty-eight athletes, and did not advance past the qualifying round.[4][5]

References

  1. ↑ "Park Hyung-jun". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
  2. 1 2 "[아테네올림픽]'세단뛰기 천재' 박형진과 그를 키우는 박영준교수" [Athens: Father and professor Park Young-jun raised his son Park Hyung-jun to become a triple jump "genius"] (in Korean). The Dong-a Ilbo. 7 June 2004. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
  3. ↑ "세단뛰기 박형진, 올림픽 출전권 획득" [Triple jumper Park Hyung-jun acquires the Olympic berth] (in Korean). Imaeil.com. 7 June 2004. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
  4. ↑ "IAAF Athens 2004: Men's Triple Jump Qualification". Athens 2004. IAAF. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
  5. ↑ "올림픽육상, 베켈레, 10,000ｍ 금" [Olympics: Athletics – Bekele takes the 10,000m gold] (in Korean). The Hankyoreh. 21 August 2004. Retrieved 16 March 2015.


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