CHON Jongwon

Republic of Korea

Date of Birth: 7 Feb 1996

Age: 25

Gender: Male

Height (m/ft): 1.76/5'9''

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Sport Climbing	Men's Combined	10

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Aomi Urban Sports Park	Men's Combined, Speed Qualification	Finished
	Aomi Urban Sports Park	Men's Combined, Bouldering Qualification	Finished
	Aomi Urban Sports Park	Men's Combined, Lead Qualification	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

World Championships

Year	Location	Combined	Speed	Boulder	Lead
2019	Hachioji, JPN	20	33	12	24
2018	Innsbruck, AUT	10	110	2	33
2016	Paris, FRA	-	-	9	-
2014	Munich, GER	-	-	35	-

Asian Games

Year	Location	Combined
2018	Indonesia	1

Asian Championships

Year	Location	Combined	Speed	Boulder	Lead
2018	Kurayoshi, JPN	8	27	9	9
2016	Duyun, CHN	-	-	3	-

World Cup overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	Speed	Boulder	Lead
2021	-	1 x 8th	1 x 48th
2019	1 x 33rd, 1 x 42nd, 1 x 44th	1 x 3rd, 1 x 5th, 1 x 6th	1 x 25th, 1 x 31st, 3 x 34th
2018	-	2 x 4th, 2 x 6th, 1 x 7th	-
2017	-	3 x 1st, 2 x 4th, 1 x 7th	1 x 4th, 1 x 6th, 1 x 22nd

World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Location
1	2017	Boulder	Mumbai, IND
1	2017	Boulder	Vail, CO, USA
1	2017	Boulder	Chongqing, CHN
3	2019	Boulder	Vail, CO, USA
4	2018	Boulder	Hachioji, JPN
4	2018	Boulder	Moscow, RUS
4	2017	Boulder	Munich, GER
4	2017	Boulder	Nanjing, CHN
4	2017	Men's Lead	Xiamen, CHN
5	2019	Boulder	Meiringen, SUI

Spider-Man (imnews.imbc.com, 16 Aug 2020)

Occupation:

Dankook University, Republic of Korea

Languages spoken:

English, Korean

National team:

2014 (ytn.co.kr, 08 Sep 2015)

He took up sport climbing seriously in 2010. (news.joins.com, 27 Nov 2017; hani.co.kr, 22 Nov 2016)

He first tried sport climbing at age 13, but quit it soon after. His mother suggested he resume the sport because she thought that he had a talent for it. (hani.co.kr, 22 Nov 2016; outdoornews.co.kr, 04 Aug 2016)

To win a gold medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, and to become a coach after he retires. (outdoornews.co.kr, 16 Oct 2018; ichannela.com, 05 May 2018)

He trains for eight hours per day. (imnews.imbc.com, 16 Aug 2020)

Winning gold in the combined event at the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia. (Facebook profile, 27 Aug 2018)

His parents. (seoul.co.kr, 13 Aug 2018)

In 2017 he was presented with the Golden Climbing Shoe Award in Seoul, Republic of Korea. (theuiaa.org, 16 Dec 2017)

Milestones

He is the first male sport climber representing the Republic of Korea to have won gold at the Asian Games, claiming victory in the combined event at the 2018 Games in Indonesia. (SportsDeskOnline, 05 Feb 2019)

He became the first male Korean sport climber to finish on the podium at the world championships when he won silver in bouldering at the 2018 edition of the tournament in Innsbruck, Austria. (SportsDeskOnline, 05 Feb 2019)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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