Pak Yung-sun
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Nationality | North Korea | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1956-08-22)22 August 1956 Sakchu County, North Pyongan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 14 July 1987(1987-07-14) (aged 30) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | February 8 Sports Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Pak Yung-sun | |
Chosŏn'gŭl | 박영순 |
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Hancha | 朴英順 |
Revised Romanization | Bak Yeong-sun |
McCune–Reischauer | Pak Yŏng-sun |
Pak Yung-sun (Korean: 박영순; 22 August 1956 – 14 July 1987), People's Athlete and Labor Hero,[1] was an international table tennis player from North Korea. She represented the Korean People's Army's February 8 Sports Club.[2]
Table tennis career
From 1974 to 1981 she won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Asian Table Tennis Championships and in the World Table Tennis Championships.[3]
The five World Championship medals[4][5] included two gold medals in the singles at the 1975 World Table Tennis Championships and 1977 World Table Tennis Championships.[6][7]
She is buried at the Patriotic Martyrs' Cemetery.[8]
See also
References
- ^ "The Immortal Youth". Naenara. 25 March 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
- ^ Boggan, Tim (2008). "Chapter 33". History of U.S. Table Tennis. Vol. VI. Archived from the original on 21 March 2020. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
- ^ "ITTF_Database - PAK Yung Sun (PRK)". ittf.com. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
- ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 2018-09-22. Retrieved 2018-02-28.
- ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
- ^ Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
- ^ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
- ^ "DPRK's Sports Aces (6) - World table-tennis queen Pak Yong Sun". Korean Central News Agency. Pyongyang. 3 March 2014. Archived from the original on 11 October 2014. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
Further reading
- Ham Yong-gil (2018). Table Tennis Queen in Living Memory (PDF). Translated by Ham Jong-hyon. Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House. ISBN 978-9946-0-1758-7.
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- 2021: Wang Manyu (CHN)
- 2023: Sun Yingsha (CHN)
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