Park Byung-hoon

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Korean spelling
Hangeul 박병훈
Revised
Romanization 		Bak Byeong-hun
McCune-
Reischauer 		Pak Pyŏnghun

Park Byung-hoon , or Park Byung-hun (* 1971 ) is a former triathlete from South Korea and Ironman winner (2007).

Career

In April 2007 Park won the long-distance triathlon (3 km swimming, 155 km cycling and 42.195 km running) at the Strongman All Japan Triathlon and two months later he was also able to win the Ironman Japan (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km Cycling and 42.195 km running).

Today he works as an organizer of Ironman races - in 2015 the Ironman 70.3 Incheon Korea was held for the first time under his leadership.

Sporting successes

Triathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
31 Aug 2013 5 Ironman Japan JapanJapan Hokkaidō 09:34:21
0Nov 5, 2011 11 Ironman 70.3 Taiwan TaiwanRepublic of China (Taiwan) Kenting 04:52:14
  2010 2 Korea Triathlon Jeju 08:09:15
June 21, 2009 4th Ironman Japan JapanJapan 08:49:10
June 14, 2009 12 ASTC Long Distance Triathlon Asian Championships Gangweon 04:46:32 behind the New Zealand winner Kieran Doe
April 19, 2009 5 Ironman China China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China 09:57:10
2008 6th Ironman Malaysia MalaysiaMalaysia Langkawi 09:19:56
2008 2 Ironman China China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China 09:13:15 second place at the opening event in China behind the German Olaf Sabatschus
2008 7th Ironman Florida United StatesUnited States 08:28:51
June 17, 2007 1 Ironman Japan JapanJapan Goto Islands
Apr 22, 2007 1 Strongman All Japan Triathlon JapanJapan Miyako-jima 07:40:12
2007 4th Ironman Malaysia MalaysiaMalaysia 08:55:35
2007 2 Ironman Korea Korea SouthSouth Korea Seogwipo second behind Raynard Tissink
2006 3 Ironman Japan JapanJapan
0July 2, 2006 23 Challenge Roth GermanyGermany Roth 08:49:20
2005 2 Ironman Korea Korea SouthSouth Korea Seogwipo at the same time as the Austrian Hubert Hammerl
2004 3 Ironman Korea Korea SouthSouth Korea Seogwipo
2003 3 Ironman Korea Korea SouthSouth Korea Seogwipo

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jensen, Li Take Ironman Japan Titles in Debut Event ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (August 31, 2013)
  2. ↑ Triathlon Results for Byung Hoon park ( Memento from July 22, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ↑ Triathlete Sabatschus cannot be beaten in China
  4. ↑ Evans smashes course record, Comerford takes 5th Ironman Florida title
  5. ↑ Korean captures second Triathlon win at Miyako
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Park is the family name here, Byung-hoon is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Park, Byung-hoon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 박병훈 (Korean, Hangeul); Bak, Byeong-hun (Revised Romanization); Pak, Pyŏnghun (McCune-Reischauer); Park, Byung-hun (alternative transcription)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean triathlete
DATE OF BIRTH 1971