Pak Yung-sun
Korean spelling | |
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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 |
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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
- ↑ DPRK's Sports Aces (6) (accessed October 18, 2018)
- ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2013/6, page 22
- ↑ Historical world rankings (accessed on July 11, 2011; PDF; 145 kB)
- ↑ DTS magazine , 1977/4, page 8
- ↑ Pak Yung-sun results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 17, 2011)
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20170908194757/http://kcna.co.jp/item/2011/201112/news08/20111208-28ee.html
- ^ Korean Stamp Catalog 1946-1980, Pyongyang: Korea Stamp Corporation, 1982, pp. 336, 407, 441
annotation
- ↑ Different dates of birth are given on sportquick: * August 22, 1957, † 1988. Entry in the French database sportquick.com (accessed on October 18, 2018)
personal data | |
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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 |