Park Beom-ho explained

Park Beom-ho
Honorific Suffix:OLY
Fullname:Park Beom-ho
Strokes:Freestyle, medley
Birth Date:23 May 1988
Birth Place:Seoul, South Korea
Weight:620NaN0
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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.[1] 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.[2]

Park competed for the South Korean swimming team in the men's 200 m individual medley at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.[2] He set 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.[3] [4] 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.[5]

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Notes and References

  1. Park Beom-ho. https://web.archive.org/web/20200417233547/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pa/park-beom-ho-1.html. dead. 17 April 2020. 18 January 2013.
  2. News: [2008 베이징올림픽-수영] 태환아, 펠프스를 말려줘]. 2008 Summer Olympics: Tae-hwan could beat Phelps in swimming. ko. The Hankyoreh. 7 August 2008. 22 April 2016.
  3. Web site: Olympic Cut Sheet – Men's 200m Individual Medley. 40. Swimming World Magazine. 10 April 2013.
  4. News: Good Luck Beijing China Open: Day Four Prelims. Swimming World Magazine. 3 February 2008. 9 April 2013.
  5. Web site: Swimming: Men's 200m Individual Medley Heat 1 . . . 18 January 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120821062446/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/swimming/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DSWM052900/index.html . 21 August 2012 .