Park Jang-soon

Korean spelling
Hangeul	박장순
Hanja	朴 章 洵
Revised Romanization	Bak Jang-sun
McCune- Reischauer	Pak Changsun
See also : Korean name

Park Jang-soon , also Park Jang-Sun (born April 10, 1968 in Boryeong , Chungcheongnam-do ) is a former South Korean wrestler . He was a 1992 Olympic champion in free style welterweight.

Career

Park Jang-soon started wrestling as a teenager, focusing on the free style. The 1.71 meter tall athlete was sponsored by Samsung Insurance Life & Co in Seoul , for whose sports club he also started. He was trained by Min Byung-chan.

In 1987, at the age of nineteen, he first competed in a world championship. In Clermont-Ferrand he achieved a good 6th place in the lightweight. At the Olympic Games in 1988 in his native Seoul , he trumped very differently and fought his way through to the final in the lightweight, in which he had no chance against the reigning world champion Arsen Fadsayev from Russia and lost outright.

At the World Championships in 1989 and 1990 Park Jang-soon was not at the start. At the Asian Championships in 1989 he came in 3rd place in the lightweight and at the Asian Games in 1990 in Beijing , he managed the first victory in a major international championship. He won there ahead of the Iranian Rasoul Khadem and the Chinese Yang Zhigang.

At the 1991 World Cup in Varna , he started in the welterweight division and came in 5th there. He failed in his pool against the Iranian Amir Reza Khadem Azghadi. In 1992 Park Jong-soon, now 24 years old, was at the peak of his performance. This got to be felt in the first fight of the welterweight tournament, the German champion Alexander Leipold , which he clearly with 8: 3 techn. Points defeated. In the semifinals, Park also defeated the 1991 world champion Amir Reza Khadem Azghadi with 2-1 techn. Points and in the final a narrow 1-0 victory over 1989 world champion Kenneth Monday from the United States was enough for him to win the Olympic gold medal .

In 1993 Park Jang-soon won the world welterweight title in Toronto . He defeated the strong American David Schultz , multiple world and Olympic champion, on points in the final battle . In 1994 he only started at the Asian Games in Hiroshima and finished there in the welterweight division behind Behrouz Ayri Kalani from Iran and Takuya Ota from Japan “only” 3rd place.

In 1995 Park Jang-soon took a break from the international championships. In 1996 he started at the Asian Championships in Xiaoshan in China , where he won the welterweight title from Magomed Kuruglijew from Kazakhstan and Issa Momeni from Iran and then also at the Olympic Games in Atlanta . In Atlanta he fought his way back into the final battle with convincing performances, but in which he clearly beat the Russian Buwaisar Saitijew with 0: 5 techn. Was subject to points. He won his second Olympic silver medal after the gold medal in 1992 .

After the Olympic Games in 1996, Park Jang-soon ended his career as an active wrestler. Since then he has been working as a wrestling trainer at Samsung Insurance in Seoul. He was inducted into the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame in August 2016 for his services to wrestling .

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class
1987	6th	World Cup in Clermont-Ferrand	Light	behind Arsen Fadsajew , Russia , Giorgios Athanasiadis , Greece , Andre Metzger , USA , Kōsei Akaishi , Japan u. Simeon Schterew , Bulgaria
1988	silver	OS in Seoul	Light	behind Arsen Fadsajew, in front of Nate Carr , USA, Kōsei Akaishi u. David McKay , Canada
1989	3.	Asian championship in Oarailbaraki / Japan	Light	behind Henmediliin Amarca, Mongolia a . Kōsei Akaishi
1990	1.	Grand Prix of the Federal Republic of Germany in Saarbrücken	Light	before Eugenio Montero , Cuba , Behcet Selimoglu , Turkey a . Georg Schwabenland , FRG
1990	1.	Asia Games in Beijing	Light	before Rasoul Khadem , Iran , Yang Zhigang, China , Li Myung Bok, North Korea and others Kōsei Akaishi
1990	2.	Goodwill Games in Seattle	Light	behind Arsen Fadzayev
1991	1.	"Roger Coulon" Memorial in Carcassonne	Welter	in front of Ludwig Küng, Switzerland a . Alexander Leipold , Germany
1991	2.	World Cup in Toledo (Ohio)	Welter	behind Gamsat Chasamow, Soviet Union , in front of Gary Holmes , Canada, Eugenio Montero u. Rob Koll , USA
1991	5.	World Cup in Varna	Welter	behind Amir Reza Khadem Azghadi, Iran, Kenneth Monday , USA, Nasir Gadschichanow , Soviet Union a. Alexander Leipold
1992	2.	"Roger Coulon" Memorial in Carcassonne	Welter	behind Kenneth Monday , USA, in front of Alexander Leipold
1992	gold	OS in Barcelona	Welter	before Kenneth Monday , Amir Reza Khadem Azghadi, Magomed Salam Gadschiew , EUN u. Krzysztof Walenciak, Poland
1993	1.	World Cup in Toronto	Welter	in front of David Schultz , USA, Alberto Rodríguez Hernández , Cuba, Turan Ceylon , Turkey a . Andre Backhaus , Germany
1994	3.	Asia Games in Hiroshima	Welter	behind Behrouz Yari Kalani, Iran u. Takuya Ota , Japan , in front of Rusland Kinchagow , Uzbekistan
1996	1.	Asian Championships in Xiaoshan / China	Welter	before Magomed Kuruglijew , Kazakhstan a . Issa Momeini , Iran
1996	silver	OS in Atlanta	Welter	with victories over Magomed Salam Gadschiew, Viktor Peikow , Moldova , Takuya Ota and others. Plamen Paskalew , Bulgaria a. a loss to Buwaisar Saitijew , Russia

swell

• Website of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig,
• "Sports123.com" website
• Trade journal Der Ringer

Individual evidence

1. ↑ United World Wrestling to Induct 15 into 2016 Hall of Fame Class , accessed April 17, 2017 (English)

Web links

• Park Jang-soon's profile at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Park Jang-soon 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, Jang-soon is the first name.