Pak Yung-sun
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22 August 1956 Sakchu County, North Pyongan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 14 July 1987 30) | (aged||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Yeongsun |
McCune–Reischauer | Pak Yŏngsun |
Pak Yung-sun (Chosŏn'gŭl: 박영순; 22 August 1956 – 14 July 1987), People's Athlete and Labor Hero,[1] was a female 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). History of U.S. Table Tennis. VI. Chapter 33. 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.
- ↑ "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. 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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