Park Sung-min (ice hockey player)

Park Sung-min
Date of birth	June 12, 1975
place of birth	Seoul , South Korea
size	176 cm
Weight	78 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1994-1995	Korea University
1999-2010	Anyang Halla (until 2003: Halla Winia)

Korean spelling
Hangeul	박성민
Hanja	朴聖民
Revised Romanization	Bak Seong-min
McCune- Reischauer	Pak Sŏngmin
See also : Korean name

Park Sun-min (born June 12, 1975 in Seoul ) is a former South Korean ice hockey player who won the 2010 Asia League Ice Hockey with Anyang Halla .

Career

Park Sung-min began his career as a hockey player on the Korea University team . In 1999 he moved to Anyang Halla , which was then still called Halla Winia . In 2000, 2005 and 2010 he won the Korea Domestic Championship with the club , the South Korean ice hockey cup. Since 2004 he played with Anyang Halla in the Asia League ice hockey , which he won with the club in 2010. Then he ended his career

International

Park Sung-min took part for South Korea in 1993 in the U18 championship of Asia and Oceania and won the bronze medal there.

With the men's national team , he first played at the D World Championships in 1996 and 1997 and the C World Championships in 1998 , 1999 and 2000 . After switching to the current division system, he played in 2001 , 2005 , 2007 , when he was voted the best defender and best goal setter as well as the most valuable player of the tournament and thus contributed significantly to the rise of the South Koreans, and in 2009 when he was the best player on his team was elected in Division II and in 2002 and 2008 in Division I.

At the Winter Asian Games 2007 in Changchun , China , he won the bronze medal with the South Korean team behind Japan and Kazakhstan .

Achievements and Awards

• 1993 bronze medal at the U18 championships in Asia and Oceania
• 1997 promotion to the C group at the D World Championship
• 2000 South Korean ice hockey cup win with Halla Winia
• 2001 Promotion to Division I at the World Championship Division II, Group A.
• 2005 South Korean ice hockey cup win with Anyang Halla
• 2006 top scorer and best striker in the Asia League Ice Hockey
• 2007 bronze medal at the Winter Asian Games
• 2007 Promotion to Division I at the World Championship Division II, Group B
• 2007 Most valuable player , best defender and best goal setter at the World Cup of Division II, Group B
• 2009 Promotion to Division I at the World Cup Division II, Group B
• 2010 won the Asia League Ice Hockey and the South Korean Ice Hockey Cup with Anyang Halla

Asia League statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	6th	164	28	36	64	149
Playoffs	5	16	0	2	2	14th

(Status: end of the 2009/10 season)

Web links

• Park Sung-min at eliteprospects.com (English)

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, Sung-min is the first name.