Park Seon-kwan

Park Seon-Kwan

Personal information
Nationality	South Korea
Born	(1991-01-16) 16 January 1991 Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Height
Weight	71 kg (157 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle, backstroke
College team	Korea National Sports University
Medal record Men's swimming Representing South Korea Asian Games 2010 Guangzhou 4×100 m freestyle East Asian Games 2009 Hong Kong 100 m backstroke 2009 Hong Kong 200 m backstroke

This is a Korean name; the family name is Park.

Park Seon-Kwan (also Park Seon-Gwan, Korean: 박 선관; born January 16, 1991 in Gyeonggi-do) is a South Korean swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events. He won a bronze medal, as a member of the South Korean swimming team, in the 400 m freestyle relay at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China. He also collected two silver medals in both 100 and 200 m backstroke at the 2009 East Asian Games in Hong Kong, China. Park is a member of the swimming team at Korea National Sports University in Seoul.

Park qualified for the men's 100 m backstroke at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 55.39 from the FINA World Championships in Shanghai, China. He challenged seven other swimmers on the second heat, including Olympic veterans Omar Pinzón of Colombia and former bronze medalist George Bovell of Trinidad and Tobago. Park edged out Russian-born swimmerAlexandr Tarabrin of Kazakhstan to take a fifth spot by four hundredths of a second (0.04), with a time of 55.51 seconds. Park failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-sixth overall in the preliminary heats.

External links

• NBC Olympics Profile