Park Tae-hwan

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Park Tae-hwan

Hangul	박태환
Hanja	朴泰桓
Revised Romanization	Bak Tae-Hwan
McCune-Reischauer	Pak T'ae-Hwan

Medal record
Park Tae-hwan
Men's Swimming
Competitor for South Korea
World Aquatics Championships
Gold	2007 Melbourne^[1]	400m Freestyle
Bronze	2007 Melbourne	200m Freestyle
World Championships - Short Course
Silver	2006 Shanghai^[2]	400m Freestyle
Silver	2006 Shanghai	1500m Freestyle
Asian Games
Gold	2006 Doha	200m Freestyle
Gold	2006 Doha	400m Freestyle
Gold	2006 Doha	1500m Freestyle
Silver	2006 Doha	100m Freestyle
Bronze	2006 Doha	4x100m Freestyle
Bronze	2006 Doha	4x200m Freestyle
Bronze	2006 Doha	4x100m Medley
Pan Pacific Championships
Gold	2006 Victoria	400m Freestyle
Gold	2006 Victoria	1500m Freestyle
Silver	2006 Victoria	200m Freestyle

This is a Korean name; the family name is Park.

Park Tae-hwan (born September 27, 1989) is a South Korean swimmer. He is currently training in Melbourne, Australia, where he is known as Tae-hwan Park.

He competed at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, where he won three gold, one silver and three bronze medals, and set two new Asian Records. At the end of the Games, he won the most number of medals by a single athlete, with seven medals. He was named the athlete of the Games^[3]

Park also won two gold medals (1500 m freestyle and 400 m freestyle) and one silver medal (200 m freestyle) at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Victoria, Canada.

Park was named the 2006 Pacific Rim Male Swimmer of the Year by Swimming World Magazine, beating other competitors from the Pacific Rim, including multiple Olympic gold medallist Grant Hackett (the 2005 Pacific Rim Male Swimmer of the Year), for the honour.