Yu Sun-bok

Yu Sun-bok (born August 2, 1970 ) is a former North Korean table tennis player who became team world champion in the 1990s and won bronze in doubles at the 1992 Olympic Games .

Career

Yu Sun-bok's first international success was winning the 1987 Asian Youth Championship with the North Korean team. In 1989 she won the adult singles of the Asian Cup, a year later she reached the final with the women's team at the Asian Cup .

She was nominated for world championships three times, namely in 1989 , 1991 and 1993 . In 1991 she was part of the all-Korean women's team that became world champions. In 1993 she won silver with the North Korean team and bronze in mixed with Sung Il Li. In the same year she was third in the Asian ranking games TOP8.

In 1992 she qualified for participation in the Olympic Games , where she reached the quarter-finals in singles and won the bronze medal in doubles with Li Bun Hui after the semi-final defeat against the Chinese Chen Zihe / Gao Jun .

In the ITTF world rankings , Yu Sun-bok was ranked ninth in late 1992 and late 1993.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
PRK	Asian Championship ATTU	1992	New Delhi	IND		Semifinals
PRK	Asian Championship ATTU	1990	Kuala Lumpur	MAS	last 16	Quarter finals	Semifinals	2
PRK	Asian Cup	1991	Dhaka	BAN	Semifinals
PRK	Asian Cup	1989	Beijing	CHN	1
PRK	Asian Games	1990	Beijing	CHN	last 16	Semifinals
PRK	Asian Championship ATTU (Juniors)	1987	Kediri	INA				1
PRK	ASIA TOP8	1993	Huangshi City	CHN	3
PRK	Olympic games	1992	Barcelona	ESP	Quarter finals	bronze
PRK	World Championship	1993	Gothenburg	SWE	last 16	Quarter finals	Semifinals	2
KOU	World Championship	1991	Chiba City	JPN	last 16	Quarter finals	last 32	1
PRK	World Championship	1989	Dortmund	FRG	last 32	last 16	Quarter finals	5
PRK	WTC World Team Cup	1991	Barcelona	ESP				3
PRK	WTC World Team Cup	1990	Hokkaido, Aomori, Niig	JPN				2

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Results of women's doubles at the 1992 Olympics (accessed on October 2, 2011)
2. ↑ World rankings 1947 to 2001 (Excel; 171 kB) ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 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 October 2, 2011)  
3. ↑ ITTF statistics ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on October 2, 2011)  

Web links

• Profile on Olympics.com (accessed October 2, 2011)
• Biography on Olympic Sports (accessed October 2, 2011)

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Yu is the family name here, Sun-bok is the first name.