Pak Yung-sun

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Korean spelling
Chosŏn'gŭl 박영순
Hancha 朴英順
Revised
Romanization 		Bak Yeong-sun
McCune-
Reischauer 		Pak Yŏngsun

Pak Yung-sun (born August 1956 in Sakju-gun, North P'yŏngan , † July 1987 ) was a North Korean table tennis player . She won the world championship in individual competition in 1975 and 1977 .

Career

It had its greatest successes in the 1970s. When she first participated in a world championship in Calcutta in 1975 , Pak Yung-sun became world champion in singles after she had won the final against the Chinese Zhang Li . At the next World Cup in 1977 in Birmingham there was the same final. Again she won against Zhang Li and thus defended her title. However, on instructions from above, the Chinese had to deliberately lose the final for political reasons. Pak Yung-sun came third with the North Korean women's team. Then she was nominated for the World Championships in 1979 and 1981 . Here she failed in the individual quarterfinals. With the team she won silver in 1979 and bronze in 1981.

At the Asian Championship ( Asian Championship ATTU ) she won the title in doubles with Chang Ae Kim and in team competition in 1976. In the ITTF world rankings she was led from 1976 to 1978 at number one.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
PRK  Asian Championship ATTU  1976  Pyongyang  PRK Semifinals  gold  1
PRK  Asian Championship ATTU  1974  Yokohama  JPN Quarter finals  Quarter finals 
PRK  Asian Games  1974  Tehran  IRI Quarter finals  Semifinals 
PRK  Asian Championship ATTU (Juniors)  1972  Beijing  CHN Semifinals 
PRK  World Championship  1981  Novi Sad  YUG Quarter finals  painted  no participants  3
PRK  World Championship  1979  Pyongyang  PRK Quarter finals  no participants  no participants  2
PRK  World Championship  1977  Birmingham  GB gold  last 64  no participants  3
PRK  World Championship  1975  Calcutta  IND gold  no participants  painted 

Others

Pak Yung-sun was honored with the titles "Sportswoman of the People" and "Hero of Labor" in her homeland. The North Korean Post Office dedicated a postage stamp with her portrait to her in 1975 and 1977 on the occasion of winning the World Cup. To host the 35th table tennis world championship in Pyongyang in 1979, her world championship title from 1977 was commemorated again on a special stamp.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DPRK's Sports Aces (6) (accessed October 18, 2018)
  2. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2013/6, page 22
  3. ↑ Historical world rankings (accessed on July 11, 2011; PDF; 145 kB)
  4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1977/4, page 8
  5. ↑ Pak Yung-sun results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 17, 2011)
  6. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20170908194757/http://kcna.co.jp/item/2011/201112/news08/20111208-28ee.html
  7. ^ Korean Stamp Catalog 1946-1980, Pyongyang: Korea Stamp Corporation, 1982, pp. 336, 407, 441

annotation

  1. ↑ Different dates of birth are given on sportquick: * August 22, 1957, † 1988. Entry in the French database sportquick.com (accessed on October 18, 2018)
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Pak is the family name here, Yung-sun is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Pak, Yung-sun
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 박영순 (Korean, Hangeul); 朴英順 (Korean, Hanja); Bak, Yeong-sun (Revised Romanization); Pak, Yŏngsun (McCune-Reischauer)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION North Korean table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH August 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Sakju-gun, North P'yŏngan, North Korea
DATE OF DEATH July 1987