Nationality South Korea Role Swimmer Height 1.85 m | Strokes Backstroke Weight 71 kg Name Park Hyung-joo | |
Born 16 July 1995 (age 29) ( 1995-07-16 ) | ||
Park Hyung-Joo (also Park Hyeong-Ju, Korean: 박 형주; born July 16, 1995 in Seoul) is a South Korean swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events. Park qualified for the men's 200 m backstroke, as South Korea's youngest male swimmer (aged 17), at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 2:00.53 from the Dong-A Swimming Tournament in Ulsan. He challenged seven other swimmers on the second heat, including three-time Olympian and European short course champion Aschwin Wildeboer Faber of Spain. Park edged out Ukraine's Oleksandr Isakov to take the seventh spot by 0.28 of a second in 2:01.50. Park failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-first overall in the preliminary heats.
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