AKRON, Ohio — South Korean An Byeong-hun relishes the prospect of trying to eclipse his parents by winning gold in Rio de Janeiro when golf returns to the Olympics next August after an absence of more than 100 years.
An is the son of two Olympic table-tennis medallists. His mother Jiao Zhimin won silver (doubles) and bronze (singles) for China at the 1988 Games where his father Ahn Jae-hyung (doubles) took bronze for Korea.
The couple were dating at the time, according to An, who jests that he would never have been conceived had it not been for those Summer Games staged in Seoul.