Men
KOR
Jae-Won CHUNG
KOR- Date of birth21 Jun 2001
- Height1750 CM
- ProfessionAthlete
- HometownSeoul
- Place of birthSeoul
- Start skating / Club He began skating in 2006 in Seoul, Republic of Korea. / Uijeongbu City Hall: Republic of Korea
- HobbiesGoing to cafes. (Athlete, 15 Nov 2023)
- LanguagesKorean
- Other nameBbosiraegi [means 'cute' in Korean]. (Athlete, 15 Nov 2019)
- CoachJaegal Sung-Yeol [club], KOR; Lee Kang-Seok [club], KOR; Park Jung-Eun [national], KOR
- ChoreographerN/A
- Former CoachN/A
- Practice low seasonN/A
- Practice high seasonN/A
- General Interest
- Sport Specific Information
"First of all, work hard." (Athlete, 22 Nov 2018)
Korean speed skater Lee Seung-Hoon. (Athlete, 15 Nov 2023)
At age 16 years and 245 days he became the youngest male athlete representing the Republic of Korea to have won a medal at the Olympic Winter Games by claiming silver in team pursuit at the 2018 Games in Pyeongchang. (SportsDeskOnline, 28 Sep 2018; news.chosun.com, 23 Feb 2018)
Korean speed skater Lee Seung-Hoon. (Athlete, 15 Nov 2023)
He fractured his right ankle during training in grade five of primary school. He fractured his ankle again in grade seven of middle school, and required three months of recovery. (Athlete, 15 Nov 2019; post.naver.com, 28 Dec 2017; yonhapnews.co.kr, 18 Oct 2017)
Winning silver in team pursuit at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang and winning silver in the mass start at the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing. (Athlete, 15 Nov 2023)
He tries to sleep for more than seven hours the night before a competition. (Athlete, 15 Nov 2019)
He was encouraged to take up the sport by his older brother Jae-Woong. "At first, I competed in both short and long distances. Short-distance events are all about racing fast, so that might look cooler. But for me, it looked cooler to keep skating each lap at the same speed and then speed up toward the end."
Jaegal Sung-Yeol [club], KOR; Lee Kang-Seok [club], KOR; Park Jung-Eun [national], KOR