| Won Yun-jong | |||||||||||
| Nationality: | South Korean | ||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 1985 6, df=yes | ||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Jungnang-gu, Seoul, South Korea[1] | ||||||||||
| Height: | 1.82 m | ||||||||||
| Weight: | 107 kg | ||||||||||
| Sport: | Bobsleigh (driver) | ||||||||||
| Module: |
| ||||||||||
Won Yun-jong (born 17 June 1985) is a South Korean bobsledder.[3]
Won competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics for South Korea. He teamed with brakeman Seo Young-woo in the South Korea-1 sled in the two-man event, finishing 18th, and with Seo, Jun Jung-lin and Suk Young-ji in the four-man, finishing 20th.[4] [5]
As of 2017, his best showing at the World Championships is 5th, in the two-man event in 2015.
Won made his World Cup debut in December 2010. As of 2017, his best World Cup finish is 1st, in 2015-16 at Whistler and Konigssee, Germany. He was the overall champion of the 2015-16 season for the two-man category.
Along with teammate Seo, Won placed sixth out of 30 teams in the two-man event at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang on 19 February, recording an overall time of 3:17.40 in four runs. Although they failed to win a medal, it was the best Olympic result by an Asian bobsleigh team.[6] The following week, on 25 February, the South Korean four-man team of pilot Won, Seo, Kim Dong-hyun and Jun Jung-lin won a surprising silver medal in the four-man event, tying with a German team led by Nico Walther. With the silver medal, South Korea became the first Asian nation to claim an Olympic medal in a bobsleigh event.[7]