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| Yonhap News/photo courtesy of swimmer Park Sun-kwan |
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| Photo provided = swimmer Park Sun-kwan |
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| The 95th National Sports Festival held at Jeju Stadium's indoor swimming pool on October 31, 2014, with Park Seon-kwan greeting the audience after setting a new Korean record of 54.41 seconds. Yonhap News |
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On a spring day in May, Park Sun-kwan (34, Incheon Metropolitan City Hall) will marry "Original Flower Boy Back Young Ace".
On the afternoon of the 3rd, Park Sun-kwan will ring the wedding march at an outdoor wedding hall in Gangnam, Seoul, after two years of dating with a beautiful photographer who had a relationship with a swimming photo shoot five years ago.
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| South Korean national team at the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games in the 400-meter medley relay. From left, Park Sun-kwan, Choi Kyu-woong, Jung Doo-hee, Park Tae-hwan. |
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| Silver in the medley relay at the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games. From left, Park Tae-hwan, Jung Doo-hee, Choi Kyu-woong, and Park Sun-kwan. |
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| A new Korean record for 400m medley relay at the 2019 Gwangju World Championships. Yonhap |
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| Backstroke aces during the 2018 Jakarta Palembang Asian Games. Park Sun-kwan (center), his junior Kang Ji-seok and Lee Ju-ho. |
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| Park Sun-kwan, a member of Incheon City Hall with his best friend Park Tae-hwan, also won the 400m medley relay at the 100th National Sports Festival in 2019 with a new competition record. Park Tae-hwan and Park Sun-kwan participated in the group competition, and Gye-young always wrote countless new Korean records. |
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Park Sun-kwan is an indispensable athlete in the history of swimming in Korea. He played for the national team for more than a decade until the 18th Gwangju World Swimming Championships in 2019, the last international stage since he first won the Taegeuk mark at the age of 18 in 2009. In particular, he showed outstanding skills in backstroke and freestyle in the main event, breaking Korean records eight times, including individual and team events.
Park Sun-kwan is a veteran senior who paved the way for Korean swimming before the juniors of `Backstroke Sign' Lee Joo-ho, Yoon Ji-hwan, and `Golden Generation.' In addition to the 2012 London Olympics, he participated in three World Championships (2011 Shanghai, 2015 Kazan, 2019 Gwangju), and three Asian Games (2010 Guangzhou, 2014 Incheon, 2018 Jakarta and Palembang), and made the name of the Republic of Korea 'Legend' with Park Tae-hwan and Kim Seo-young. It was a dedicated 'Team Player' who set numerous Korean records and put Korean swimming on the podium by reflecting in the backstroke, the main event, as well as the medley and relay team events.
Park Sun-kwan, who was born in 1991, is still an active player at the age of 34, setting an example of a 'long good, sincere player'. In 2006, at the age of 15, he won a bronze medal in the men's 200m backstroke at the 87th Gyeongbuk National Sports Festival and a gold medal in the 400m medley relay, and then constantly challenged the Korean record on 17 stages of the National Sports Festival. Two years ago, he won two gold medals and two silver medals at the 100th National Sports Festival in 2019 when he played for Incheon with Park Tae-hwan, and two years ago, he proved the power of a veteran by winning a joint bronze medal alongside Lee Chang-hoon, who was 13 years younger than him in the 104th National Sports Festival in 2023.
After cutting his first current at the age of 11, Park Sun-kwan, who decided to end his 23-year-old career with the 106th Busan National Sports Festival in October this year, will now stand again at the starting point of his life of 'Marriage'.
Park Seon-gwan said, "When I was thinking about the time of retirement or my career after retirement, the bride-to-be was a great help to me."," he said, expressing his gratitude. "It is meaningful to end my career after the National Sports Festival in Busan, where I played my first national competition in my life. I'm going to do my best as a player until the end of this season and think more about my plans after thatIt feels like retirement and marriage are baton-touch. Since it's a new start, I will work harder and live a happy life" delivered his pledge.
Reporter Jeon Young-ji sky4us@sportschosun.com
◇'Baeyoung National University ace'Park Sun-kwan profile
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▶Main history
-Medal at the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games (400 m medley relay silver and 400 m relay bronze)
-National team at the 2011 Shanghai World Swimming Championships (100 m backstroke)
-2012 London Olympics national team (100 m backstroke)
-2014 Incheon Asian Games national team (50m backstroke, 100m backstroke, 400m mixed relay)
-Kazan World Swimming Championships 2015 (50m backstroke, 100m backstroke, 100m freestyle)
-Korean national team at the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games (100 m freestyle, 400 m relay, 400 m medley relay)
-2019 Gwangju World Swimming Championships national team (400m relay and 400m mixed relay)
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
