Won Yun-jong

In this Korean name, the family name is Won.

Won Yun-jong (born 17 June 1985) is a South Korean bobsledder.^[3]

Won Yun-jong

Personal information
Nationality	South Korean
Born	(1985-06-17) 17 June 1985 (age 40) Jungnang-gu, Seoul, South Korea[1]
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	107 kg (236 lb)
Korean name
Hangul	원윤종
Hanja	元潤鐘[2]
Revised Romanization	Won Yunjong
McCune–Reischauer	Wŏn Yunjong
Sport
Country	South Korea
Sport	Bobsleigh (driver)
Medal record Olympic Games 2018 Pyeongchang Four-man

Won competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics for South Korea. He teamed with brakeman Seo Young-woo in the South Korea-1 sled in the two-man event, finishing 18th, and with Seo, Jun Jung-lin and Suk Young-ji in the four-man, finishing 20th.^[4][5]

As of 2017, his best showing at the World Championships is 5th, in the two-man event in 2015.^[3]

Won made his World Cup debut in December 2010. As of 2017, his best World Cup finish is 1st, in 2015-16 at Whistler and Konigssee, Germany.^[3] He was the overall champion of the 2015-16 season for the two-man category.

Along with teammate Seo, Won placed sixth out of 30 teams in the two-man event at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang on 19 February, recording an overall time of 3:17.40 in four runs. Although they failed to win a medal, it was the best Olympic result by an Asian bobsleigh team.^[6] The following week, on 25 February, the South Korean four-man team of pilot Won, Seo, Kim Dong-hyun and Jun Jung-lin won a surprising silver medal in the four-man event, tying with a German team led by Nico Walther. With the silver medal, South Korea became the first Asian nation to claim an Olympic medal in a bobsleigh event.^[7]