Hong Moo-won

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Hong Moo-Won
Personal information
Full name홍무원
Nationality South Korea
Born (1981-08-15) August 15, 1981 (age 40)
Height1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight48 kg (106 lb)
Sport
SportBoxing
Weight classLight flyweight

Hong Moo-Won (born August 15, 1981) is a South Korean amateur boxer best known to participate at the Olympics 2004 and winning a bronze medal at the Asian Games 2006 in Doha.

Career[]

At the world championships 2003 he lost to eventual winner Sergey Kazakov 10:26, he did not participate in 2005 and 2007.

At Athens he beat Harry Tanamor but lost to eventual winner Yan Bartelemí. He qualified for the Athens Games by ending up in first place in the 2nd AIBA Asian 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Karachi, Pakistan. In the final he defeated Tanamor.

At Doha 2006 he also lost to the eventual winner Zou Shiming 9:17.

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