Nationality South Korea Height 1.83 m Role Swimmer | Name Park Seon-kwan Strokes Freestyle, backstroke Weight 71 kg | |
Born 16 January 1991 (age 33) ( 1991-01-16 ) Gyeonggi-do, South Korea College team Korea National Sport University | ||
Park Seon-Kwan (also Park Seon-Gwan, Korean: 박 선관; born January 16, 1991 in Gyeonggi-do) is a South Korean swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events. He won a bronze medal, as a member of the South Korean swimming team, in the 400 m freestyle relay at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China. He also collected two silver medals in both 100 and 200 m backstroke at the 2009 East Asian Games in Hong Kong, China. Park is a member of the swimming team at Korea National Sports University in Seoul.
Park qualified for the men's 100 m backstroke at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 55.39 from the FINA World Championships in Shanghai, China. He challenged seven other swimmers on the second heat, including Olympic veterans Omar Pinzón of Colombia and former bronze medalist George Bovell of Trinidad and Tobago. Park edged out Russian-born swimmerAlexandr Tarabrin of Kazakhstan to take a fifth spot by four hundredths of a second (0.04), with a time of 55.51 seconds. Park failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-sixth overall in the preliminary heats.