Nationality South Korea Strokes Freestyle, medley Sport Swimming | Weight 62 kg (137 lb) Height 1.72 m (5 ft 7 ⁄2 in) Name Park Beom-ho | |
Born 23 May 1988 (age 35) ( 1988-05-23 ) | ||
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. 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.
Park competed for the South Korean swimming team in the men's 200 m individual medley at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. 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. 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.