Park Young-chul
| Korean spelling | |
|---|---|
| Hangeul | 박영철 |
|
Revised Romanization |
Bak Yeong-cheol |
|
McCune- Reischauer |
Pak Yŏng-ch'ŏl |
Park Young-chul (born April 14, 1954 ) is a former South Korean judoka . He won an Olympic middleweight bronze medal in 1976 and a world championship bronze in light middleweight in 1979.
Career
The 1.75 m Park Young-chul defeated the Hungarian Endre Kiss prematurely in the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal . In the quarterfinals he was defeated by the Japanese Isamu Sonoda with a Yuko rating. In the hope round , Park defeated the Australian Paul Buganey and the German Fred Marhenke and won a bronze medal.
At the 1979 World Championships in Paris, Park Young-chul went to the light middleweight division after a reorganization of the weight classes. In the last sixteen he was defeated by the Japanese Shōzō Fujii . With wins in the hopes over the Hungarian László Hangyási , the Spaniard Ignacio Sanz and Brett Barron from the United States, Park won a bronze medal.
Web links
- Park Young-chul in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Tournament results at judoinside.com
Footnotes
- ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984 . Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . P. 504
- ↑ Match balance at judoinside.com
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Park Young-chul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 박영철 (Hangeul) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South Korean judoka |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1954 |