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Jung Jin-Hwa | |
Birth Date: | 25 May 1989 |
Birth Place: | Ulsan, South Korea |
Weight: | 740NaN0 |
Sport: | Modern pentathlon |
Coach: | Nam Kyung-Guk |
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Jung Jin-Hwa (also Jeong Jin-Hwa, Korean: 정진화; born May 25, 1989, in Ulsan) is a modern pentathlete from South Korea.[1] He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where he finished eleventh in the men's event, tying for the best result for a South Korean with Kim Mi-Seop at Atlanta in 1996.[2]
Jung also won an individual bronze medal at the 2012 World Modern Pentathlon Championships in Rome, Italy, finishing behind the Russians, world champion Aleksander Lesun and two-time Olympic champion Andrey Moiseev.
At the 2016 Olympics, he finished in 13th place.