Park Sang-young

Korean spelling
Hangeul	박상영
Revised Romanization	Bak Sangyeong
McCune- Reischauer	Pak Sangyŏng
See also : Korean name

Park Sang-young (2014)

Park Sang-young (born October 16, 1995 in Jinju ) is a South Korean sword fencer and Olympic champion .

successes

Park Sang-young won the 2014 Junior World Championships in Moscow in the epee singles. In 2014 he won the individual Grand Prix du Qatar and Grand Prix de Berne , with the team he won silver at the World Championships . At a Grand Prix in Budapest in early 2015, he seriously injured his knee, so that he had to take a year off. After his recovery, he won silver at the 2016 Asian Championships in Wuxi and won gold in singles at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . In the final battle he was against Géza Imre in the meantime back 11:14 and started a race to catch up until 15:14.

Web links

Commons : Park Sang-young  - collection of images

• Sangyoung Park - Rankings and Results in the database of the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime (English / French)

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, Sang-young is the first name.