Park Beom-ho
Park Beom-ho (also Pak Beom-ho, Korean: 박 범호; born May 23, 1988) is a South Korean swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and individual medley events.[1] He represented his nation South Korea at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has won a bronze medal, as a member of the men's 4×200 m freestyle relay team, at the 2006 Asian Championships in Singapore.[2] Park competed for the South Korean swimming team in the men's 200 m individual medley at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.[2] He set a new personal best of 2:04.81 to set himself up a fourth seed headed into the final at the Good Luck Beijing China Open six months earlier, finishing under the FINA B-cut (2:05.65) by almost 0.85 of a second.[3][4] Swimming in heat one, Park pulled from behind on the rear of a dominant freestyle leg to beat two-time Olympians Iurii Zakharov of Kyrgyzstan and Danil Bugakov of Uzbekistan by less than a second for the fifth spot in 2:06.17. Park failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed forty-fourth overall in the prelims.[5] References
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