Hong Cha-ok

Hong Cha-ok (born March 10, 1970 in Gunwi County , South Korea ) is a former South Korean table tennis player . She became world champion in team competition in 1991 and bronze medalist at the 1992 Olympics.

Career

Hong Cha-ok achieved first international successes at the Asian Youth Championships. In 1986 she reached the finals in singles, doubles with Hyun Jung-hwa and mixed with Kim Taek-soo . In 1987 she won the singles title.

She took part in the World Championships in 1987 , 1991 and 1993 . She became world champion with the all-Korean women's team in 1991, and was eliminated in the quarter-finals in singles. In 1993 she won bronze with the South Korean women's team.

At the Asian Championships for adults , she won in 1988 and 1990 with the team. In 1990 she reached the semi-finals in doubles and the final in mixed with Kim Taek-soo. Hong Cha-ok qualified twice to compete in the Summer Olympics . In 1988 she only competed in singles, in 1992 only in doubles, where she won bronze with Hyun Jung-hwa .

In 1992 she was ranked 20th in the ITTF world rankings .

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
COR	Asian Championship ATTU	1990	Kuala Lumpur	MAS	Quarter finals	Semifinals	silver	1
COR	Asian Championship ATTU	1988	Niigata	JPN	Quarter finals			1
COR	Asian Cup	1987	Seoul	COR	7th
COR	Asian Games	1990	Beijing	CHN		gold	Semifinals	2
COR	Asian Championship ATTU (Juniors)	1987	Kediri	INA	gold
COR	Asian Championship ATTU (Juniors)	1986	Nagoya	JPN	silver	silver	silver
COR	Olympic games	1992	Barcelona	ESP	no participants	bronze
COR	Olympic games	1988	Seoul	COR	8th	no participants
COR	World Championship	1993	Gothenburg	SWE	last 32	last 16	last 16	3
KOU	World Championship	1991	Chiba City	JPN	last 32	Quarter finals	last 16	1
COR	World Championship	1987	New Delhi	IND	last 64	no participants	last 16
COR	World Doubles Cup	1992	Las Vegas	United States		silver
COR	World Doubles Cup	1990	Seoul	COR		gold
COR	WTC World Team Cup	1991	Barcelona	ESP				2
COR	WTC World Team Cup	1990	Hokkaido, Aomori, Niig	JPN				3

Individual evidence

1. ↑ World rankings from 1947 - 2001 ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on August 17, 2011; MS Excel ; 171 kB)  
2. ↑ ITTF statistics ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 8, 2011)  

Web links

• Hong Cha-ok in the Sports-Reference database (archived from the original ) (accessed August 17, 2011)

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Hong is the family name here, Cha-ok is the first name.