![]() Jung in 2020 | |||||||||||||||
Personal information | |||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nationality | South Korean | ||||||||||||||
Born | Paju, South Korea | 17 March 1999||||||||||||||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 82 kg (181 lb) | ||||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||||
Country | ![]() | ||||||||||||||
Sport | ![]() | ||||||||||||||
Club | Gangwon Provincial Office | ||||||||||||||
Turned pro | 2014 | ||||||||||||||
Coached by |
| ||||||||||||||
Medal record
|
Jung Seung-gi ( Korean: 정승기; born 27 March 1999) [1] is a South korean skeleton racer. Jung finished in ninth place in the men's skeleton at the 2019 IBSF World Championships in Whistler, and won a gold medal at the 2018 Intercontinental Cup in Winterberg. He won a bronze medal at the 2023 IBSF World Championships for the first time since Yun Sungbin’s bronze medal back in 2019.
Jung was born on March 27, 1999, in Paju, Gyeonggi Province. In 2014, he was first introduced to the world of Skeleton sport. In 2018, Jung was one of the young Korean athletes who carried the Olympic Flag into the Olympic Stadium at the Opening Ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. [2] In 2023, Jung graduated from Catholic Kwandong University with a Bachelor's degree on Sports Rehabilitation.
Event | Men's Skeleton | |
---|---|---|
Representing ![]() | ||
![]() |
10th |
Event | Men's Skeleton | |
---|---|---|
Representing ![]() | ||
![]() |
9th | |
![]() |
16th | |
![]() |
20th | |
![]() |
3rd | |
![]() |
TBD | |
![]() |
TBD |
Season | Place | Points | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2019–20 | 12th | 904 | LPL1 15 |
LPL2 13 |
WIN 9 |
LPG 11 |
IGL 9 |
KON 15 |
STM - |
SIG 11 |
2020–21 | 21st | 360 | SIG1 - |
SIG2 - |
IGL1 - |
IGL2 - |
WIN - |
STM - |
KON 25 |
IGL3 9 |
2021–22 | 9th | 1104 | IGL1 7 |
IGL2 4 |
ALT1 22 |
WIN1 11 |
ALT2 16 |
SIG 3 |
WIN2 11 |
STM 13 |
2022–23 | 4th | 1478 | WHI 2 |
PCT 2 |
LPL 3 |
WIN 13 |
ALT1 4 |
ALT2 7 |
IGL 2 |
SIG 7 |