Park Hyung-joo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Park Hyung-joo

Olympic swimmer

Date of Birth: 16-Jul-1995

Place of Birth: Seoul, South Korea

Profession: swimmer

Nationality: South Korea

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Park Hyung-joo

  • Park Hyung-Joo (also Park Hyeong-Ju, Korean: ? ??; born July 16, 1995 in Seoul) is a South Korean swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events.
  • Park qualified for the men's 200 m backstroke, as South Korea's youngest male swimmer (aged 17), at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 2:00.53 from the Dong-A Swimming Tournament in Ulsan.
  • He challenged seven other swimmers on the second heat, including three-time Olympian and European short course champion Aschwin Wildeboer Faber of Spain.
  • Park edged out Ukraine's Oleksandr Isakov to take the seventh spot by 0.28 of a second in 2:01.50.
  • Park failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-first overall in the preliminary heats.

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