Personal information | |
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Full name | John Tarkong, Jr. |
Nationality | Palau |
Born | Washington, D.C., United States | 7 December 1965
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) |
Weight | 96 kg (212 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Wrestling |
Style | Greco-Roman |
Club | Palauan Amateur Wrestling Federation |
Coach | Lee Joong-Sub |
John Tarkong, Jr. (born December 7, 1965, in Washington, District of Columbia, United States) is a retired amateur Palauan Greco-Roman wrestler, who competed in the men's heavyweight category.[1] Tarkong represented Palau at the 2004 Summer Olympics, where he became the nation's flag bearer in the opening ceremony.[2] During his sporting career, he has been training for the Palauan Amateur Wrestling Federation under his personal coach Lee Joong-Sub.
Tarkong qualified for the Palauan squad, as a 38-year-old, in the men's 96 kg class at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens by receiving a berth from the Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.[3] He received two straight losses due to technical superiority and no classification points in a preliminary pool match against Kyrgyzstan's Gennady Chkhaidze and Bulgaria's Kaloyan Dinchev, finishing twentieth overall out of twenty-two wrestlers.[4][5]