SHIM Jungsub

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Marathon
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	137th (2:42:42)

Gold Label Road Races

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
7	Marathon	2019	Seoul, KOR	2:12:57

Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final

Athlete

Wife Song Hee

Korean

Korea Electric Power Corporation [Republic of Korea]

Kim Jae-Ryong [club], KOR

His training was disrupted ahead of the 2016 Olympic Games after he injured his right heel during a training camp in Japan one month before the Games. (mk.co.kr, 26 Aug 2020; donga.com, 24 Jan 2020)

He took up the sport in 2010. (view.asiae.co.kr, 17 Mar 2014)

He began focusing on marathon after watching the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, People's Republic of China. (view.asiae.co.kr, 17 Mar 2014)

To run the marathon in under two hours and nine minutes at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, and to win a medal at the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, People's Republic of China. (munhwa.com, 06 Apr 2021; sports.donga.com, 04 Apr 2021)

His father. (jeollailbo.com, 11 Oct 2010)

"For me, marathon is the only hope." (hankookilbo.com, 23 Nov 2015)

In 2015 he was named Most Valuable Player [MVP] of the Korean Peninsula Marathon Tournament in the Republic of Korea. (hankookilbo.com, 23 Nov 2015)