Park Eun-chul

Korean spelling
Hangeul	박은철
Hanja	朴 殷 哲
Revised Romanization	Bak Eun-cheol
McCune- Reischauer	Pak Ŭnch'ŏl
See also : Korean name

Park Eun-chul (born January 18, 1981 ) is a South Korean wrestler . Park was twice vice world champion (2005 and 2007). It starts in the Greco-Roman style in the class up to 55 kg.

The 2005 World Cup in Budapest was his first major tournament. However, at the age of 17 he had his first major tournament at the Junior Asian Championships. In 2000 and 2002 he took part in the World University Games (7th and 2nd place). In 2005 in Budapest he fought his way through the tournament and stood in the final against the world junior champion Hamid Soryan Reihanpour , against whom he lost 4-6.

At the World Cup a year later in Guangzhou , China , he moved back to the semifinals, but there he was defeated by Rowschan Bajramow from Azerbaijan, who later lost to Hamid Soryan Reihanpour in the final. At the Asian Games in the same year he was defeated by Masatoshi Toyota from Japan and was only ninth. At the 2007 World Championships in Azerbaijan, he defeated Bajramov in the fourth round and later moved into the final, where he lost again to Hamid Sorjan Reihanpour.

successes

• 2005, 2nd place , World Championships in Budapest , GR, up to 55 kg, after victories over Aljaksej Schajpak ( Belarus ), Anders Nyblom ( Denmark ), Kwang Su-cha ( North Korea ) and István Majoros ( Hungary ) and a final defeat against Hamid Soryan Reihanpour ( Iran )

• 2006, 3rd place , World Championships in Guangzhou , GR, up to 55 kg, after victories over Viktor Korablew ( Russia ), Roman Amojan ( Armenia ), Ri Kyong-il (North Korea) and Tibor Olah (Hungary) and a loss in the semifinals against Rövşən Bayramov ( Azerbaijan )

• 2006, 9th place , Asian Games in Doha , GR, up to 55 kg, after a defeat against Masatoshi Toyota ( Japan )

• 2007, 2nd place , World Championships in Baku , GR, up to 55 kg, after victories over Nasir Mankijew (Russia), Maher Boutouri ( Tunisia ), Rövşən Bayramov and Hildar Hafizow , ( Uzbekistan ) and a final defeat against Hamid Soryan Reihanpour

• 2008, bronze medal , OS in Beijing , GR, up to 55 kg, after victories over Anders Myblom, Spencer Mango, Hamid Soryan Reihanpour and a defeat against Nasir Mankijew.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://knsuwrestling.co.kr/kboard/kboard.php?board=news&act=view&no=12  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Korean)  

Web links

• Profile of Park Eun-chul at the Institute for Applied Exercise Science
• Park Eun-chul in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Park is the family name here, Eun-chul is the first name.