| Won Jeong-sik | |
| Birth Date: | 9 December 1990 |
| Birth Place: | Cheolwon, Gangwon, South Korea |
| Height: | 1.63 m |
| Weight: | 72.57 kg |
| Spouse: | Yoon Jin-hee |
| Country: | South Korea |
| Sport: | Weightlifting |
| Club: | Korea National Sport University |
| Coach: | Ahn Hyo-jak |
| Event: | –73 kg |
Won Jeong-sik (born 9 December 1990) is a South Korean weightlifter, Olympian,[1] and World Champion competing in the 69 kg category until 2018 and 73 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.[2]
Won took up weightlifting aged 14 and has a degree from the Korea National Sport University. He is married to the fellow Olympic weightlifter Yoon Jin-hee, they have two children.[1] [3]
He competed in the 69 kg division at the 2012 Summer Olympics[4] placing 7th overall. In 2016 he competed at the 2016 Olympics in the 69 kg division and placed 8th overall.[5] [6]
In 2017 he competed at the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships where he won the gold medal in the 69 kg division,[7] in doing so he became the first Korean athlete to win a gold medal in this event.[8] This was his first gold medal at the World Weightlifting Championships and his first major medal (he won a bronze medal in the clean & jerk at the 2011 World Weightlifting Championships).
In 2018 the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories and Won competed in the newly created 73 kg division. He competed in the B session, and in the process of winning the silver medal he set a new world record in the clean & jerk with a lift of 195 kg. This was overtaken later in the day by Shi Zhiyong (who would later win the gold medal) with a clean & jerk of 196 kg, done in the A session.[9]
| Year | Venue | Weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | Rank | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| width=60 | 1 | width=60 | 2 | width=60 | 3 | width=45 | Rank | width=60 | 1 | width=60 | 2 | width=60 | 3 | width=45 | Rank |
| Olympic Games | |||||||||||||||
| 144 | 11 | 178 | 6 | 322 | 7 | ||||||||||
| 143 | 9 | 172 | 177 | 9 | 320 | 8 | |||||||||
| World Championships | |||||||||||||||
| 140 | 144 | 10 | 177 | 182 | 326 | 6 | |||||||||
| 141 | 14 | — | — | — | |||||||||||
| 142 | 146 | 148 | 178 | 326 | |||||||||||
| 145 | 150 | 153 | 6 | 180 | 190 | 195 WR | 348 | ||||||||
| Asian Games | |||||||||||||||
| 140 | 6 | 170 | 6 | 310 | 6 | ||||||||||
| 143 | 6 | 170 | — | 10 | 313 | 6 | |||||||||
| 145 | 5 | — | — | — | |||||||||||