Pak Yung-sun

Pak Yung-sun (Korean: 박영순; 22 August 1956 – 14 July 1987), People's Athlete and Labor Hero,[1] was a female international table tennis player from North Korea. She represented the Korean People's Army's February 8 Sports Club.[2]

Pak Yung-sun
Personal information
Nationality	North Korea
Born	22 August 1956 Sakchu County, North Pyongan
Died	14 July 1987 (aged 30)
Club	February 8 Sports Club
Medal record Women's table tennis World Championships 1981 Novi Sad Team 1979 Pyongyang Team 1977 Birmingham Singles 1977 Birmingham Team 1975 Calcutta Singles Asian Championships 1976 Pyongyang Singles 1976 Pyongyang Doubles 1976 Pyongyang Team

Pak Yung-sun
Chosŏn'gŭl	박영순
Hancha	朴英順
Revised Romanization	Bak Yeongsun
McCune–Reischauer	Pak Yŏngsun

Table tennis career

From 1974 to 1981 she won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Asian Table Tennis Championships and in the World Table Tennis Championships.[3]

The five World Championship medals[4][5] included two gold medals in the singles at the 1975 World Table Tennis Championships and 1977 World Table Tennis Championships.[6][7]

She is buried at the Patriotic Martyrs' Cemetery.[8]

See also

• List of table tennis players
• List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

References

1. "The Immortal Youth". Naenara. 25 March 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
2. Boggan, Tim (2008). History of U.S. Table Tennis. VI. Chapter 33. Retrieved 3 June 2018.CS1 maint: location (link)
3. "ITTF_Database - PAK Yung Sun (PRK)". ittf.com. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
4. "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 2018-09-22. Retrieved 2018-02-28.
5. "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
6. Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
7. Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
8. "DPRK's Sports Aces (6) - World table-tennis queen Pak Yong Sun". Korean Central News Agency. Pyongyang. 3 March 2014. Archived from the original on 11 October 2014. Retrieved 17 December 2015.

Further reading

• Ham Yong-gil (2018). Table Tennis Queen in Living Memory (PDF). Translated by Ham Jong-hyon. Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House. ISBN 978-9946-0-1758-7.