Yoo Nam-kyu

Korean spelling
Hangeul	유남규
Hanja	劉南圭
Revised Romanization	Yu Nam-gyu
McCune- Reischauer	Yu Nam-kyu
See also : Korean name

Yoo Nam-kyu 2012

Yoo Nam-kyu (born June 4, 1968 in Busan ) is a retired South Korean table tennis player . He is the first Olympic champion in men's singles.

Career

At the age of 10, Yoo Nam-kyu started playing table tennis against his father's wishes. Success came quickly. The left-handed penholder player first caused a sensation in professional circles in 1986 when he won the Asian Games against the then world champion Jiang Jialiang . In 1999 he stepped down from the international stage. From May 2005 to December 2007 he was the head coach of the men's national team of South Korea. After retiring from this post, he returned in July 2008 and stayed until January 2010.

successes

Between 1987 and 1999 he took part in all seven world championships . In 1987 he reached the semi-finals in doubles with Ahn Jae-hyung . In 1989 he became mixed world champion together with Jung Hwa Hyun . Four years later he won silver in this discipline (with Jung Hwa Hyun), in doubles with Kim Taek-soo he reached the semi-finals.

He was nominated three times for the Summer Olympics . When table tennis was first represented in 1988 , he won the first gold medal in singles when he defeated Kim Ki-taik in the all-Korean final . At this and the two following Summer Games he won bronze in doubles: 1988 with Ahn Jae-hyung, 1992 with Kim Taek-soo and 1996 with Lee Chul-seung .

Private

Yoo Nam-kyu's parents belonged to the wealthy class in South Korea. He still has two brothers. He has been married to the handbag designer Yoon Young Sil since 2007.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
COR	Asian Championship ATTU	1998	Osaka	JPN	last 16	silver	Quarter finals	2
COR	Asian Championship ATTU	1990	Kuala Lumpur	MAS	last 16	Quarter finals	gold
COR	Asian Championship ATTU	1988	Niigata	JPN	silver	Semifinals	gold
COR	Asian Championship ATTU	1986	Shenzhen	CHN	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
COR	Asian Cup	1994	Shanghai	CHN	Semifinals
COR	Asian Cup	1987	Seoul	COR	4th
COR	Asian Games	1994	Hiroshima	JPN	silver	silver	Semifinals	2
COR	Asian Games	1990	Beijing	CHN	Semifinals	Semifinals	silver	1
COR	Asian Games	1986	Seoul	COR	gold	silver	Semifinals	1
COR	Asian Championship ATTU (Juniors)	1986	Nagoya	JPN	Semifinals			1
COR	Asian Championship ATTU (Juniors)	1983	Al-Manama	BRN		gold	silver	1
COR	Olympic games	1996	Atlanta	United States	last 16	bronze
COR	Olympic games	1992	Barcelona	ESP	last 16	bronze
COR	Olympic games	1988	Seoul	COR	gold	bronze
COR	Pro tour	1999	Kobe City	JPN	last 32	last 16
COR	Pro tour	1999	Guilin	CHN	Quarter finals	last 16
COR	Pro tour	1999	Zagreb	HRV	Rd 1	Quarter finals
COR	Pro tour	1999	Hopton-on-Sea	CLOSELY	last 16	Semifinals
COR	Pro tour	1998	Sundsvall	SWE	Rd 1	last 16
COR	Pro tour	1998	Ji 'Nan City	CHN	last 32	last 16
COR	Pro tour	1998	Wakayama	JPN	last 16	Quarter finals
COR	Pro tour	1998	Doha	QAT	last 32	last 16
COR	Pro tour	1997	Squid	SWE	last 32	Quarter finals
COR	Pro tour	1997	Linz	AUT	last 16	last 16
COR	Pro tour	1997	Zhuhai	CHN	Quarter finals	Rd 1
COR	Pro tour	1997	Chiba	JPN	last 16	Semifinals
COR	Pro tour	1997	Fort Lauderdale	United States	Quarter finals	silver
COR	Pro tour	1997	Rio de Janeiro	BRA	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
COR	Pro tour	1996	Kitaku-Shu	JPN	Quarter finals	Semifinals
COR	Pro Tour Grand Finals	1997	Hong Kong	HKG		Quarter finals
COR	World Championship	1999	Eindhoven	NED	last 128	last 64	last 16
COR	World Championship	1997	Manchester	CLOSELY	last 64	last 32	Quarter finals	3
COR	World Championship	1995	Tianjin	CHN	last 128	last 64	last 64	3
COR	World Championship	1993	Gothenburg	SWE	last 64	Semifinals	silver	5
KOU	World Championship	1991	Chiba City	JPN	Quarter finals	Quarter finals	last 16	6th
COR	World Championship	1989	Dortmund	FRG	last 16	last 16	gold	5
COR	World Championship	1987	New Delhi	IND	last 128	Semifinals	Quarter finals	9
COR	World cup	1992	Ho Chi Minh City	VIE	3
COR	World cup	1990	Chiba City	JPN	9-12 space
COR	World cup	1989	Nairobi	KEN	9
COR	World cup	1988	Canton & Wuhan	United States	7th
COR	World Doubles Cup	1992	Las Vegas	United States		gold
COR	World Doubles Cup	1990	Seoul	COR		gold
COR	WTC World Team Cup	1995	Atlanta	United States				1
COR	WTC World Team Cup	1990	Hokkaido, Aomori, Niig	JPN				5

literature

• Hikosuke Tamasu: He plays like a young lion , DTS magazine , 1989/3 p. 12

swell

• Rahul Nelson: Yoo Nam Kyu's prayers were answered - The goldfish shone , DTS magazine , 1988/11 p. 8

Individual evidence

1. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2008/8 p. 19 + 2010/3 p. 7
2. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2007/10 p. 10
3. ↑ ITTF statistics ( memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 17, 2011)  

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Yoo is the family name here, Nam-kyu is the first name.