Tae-hwan Park

Tae-hwan Park
Park Tae-hwan (2010)
Personal information
Surname:	Tae-hwan Park
Nation:	South Korea
Swimming style (s) :	Freestyle
Society:	Dankook University
Birthday:	September 27, 1989
Place of birth:	Seoul
Size:	1.83 m
Weight:	74 kg
Medal table

Korean spelling
Hangeul	박태환
Hanja	朴泰桓
Revised Romanization	Bak Tae-hwan
McCune- Reischauer	Pak T'ae-hwan
See also : Korean name

Park Tae-hwan (born September 27, 1989 in Seoul ) is a South Korean swimmer, two-time world champion over 400 m freestyle (2007, 2011) and Olympic champion over 400 m freestyle (2008).

Career

Park Tae-hwan won three gold medals at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha , one silver and three bronze medals. He won the 200 m, 400 m and 1500 m freestyle. In the same year he was named Pacific Swimmer of the Year .

At the Swimming World Championships in Melbourne in 2007 he was world champion in the 400 m freestyle, making him the first Korean ever to become world swimming champion.
The following year he was Olympic champion at the 2008 Summer Olympics over the same distance. Park is the first Korean Olympic champion in swimming.
At the 2011 Swimming World Championships , he also won the 400 m freestyle course and won his second world championship title. At the 2012 Summer Olympics , he won silver medals in the 200 m and 400 m freestyle.

In January 2015, he tested positive for Nebido, an anabolic steroid, on a doping test . Conspicuous testosterone levels had already been detected in September 2014, which is why it was blocked retrospectively in March 2015 for 18 months until March 2, 2016. He would then be eligible to start the 2016 Olympic Games , but the Korean Olympic Committee does not allow South Korea to start for three years in the event of doping violations. Against the will of the National Olympic Committee, the International Court of Sports decided to allow Parks to participate in the Olympic Games. Park was eliminated in all disciplines in advance.

Web links

• Park Tae-hwan in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Park Tae-hwan in the database of Swimrankings.net (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Swimming star Park apparently doped (January 26, 2015)
2. ↑ Prosecutors confirm Park Tae-hwan took steroids www.koreaobserver.com (January 27, 2015)
3. ↑ 18 months ban for Olympic champion Park Tae-Hwan www.swimsportnews.de March 23, 2015
4. ↑ South Korea's strong swimming park, probably without an Olympic chance, Abendzeitung-muenchen.de April 7, 2016

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, Tae-hwan is the first name.