Park Jang-soon
Park Jang -soon, also Park Jang- Sun ( born April 10, 1968 in Boryeong, Chungcheongnam -do ) is a former South Korean wrestler. He was Olympic champion in 1992 in the free style in the welterweight division.
Career
Park Jang -soon began as a teenager with the rings, where he focused on the free style. The 1.71 meter tall athlete was sponsored by Samsung Life Insurance & Co in Seoul, for the sports club he started also. He was trained by Min Byung -chan.
In 1987 he started at age nineteen for the first time at a World Cup. In Clermont- Ferrand he reached there at lightweight a good 6th place. At the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, he triumphed on home very different, and fought in the lightweight to the finals before, in which he against the reigning world champion arsenic Fadsajew from Russia had no chance, however, and smooth lost.
At the World Championships in 1989 and 1990 Park Jang -soon was not at the start. In the Asian championship in 1989 he came to the 3rd place in the lightweight and at the Asian Games in Beijing in 1990 he achieved his first victory at a major international championship. He won there before the Iranians Rasoul Khadem and the Chinese Yang Zhigang.
At the 1991 World Championships in Varna, he started welterweight and arrived there on the 5th Place. It failed while in his pool at the Amir Reza Khadem Azghadi Iranians. In 1992 was Park Jong -soon, now 24 years old, at the peak of its performance. This was in the very first battle of the welterweight tournament of the German champion Alexander Leipold to feel that he clearly with 8:3 techn. Points defeated. In the semifinals defeated Park also the world champion Amir Reza Khadem 1991 Azghadi 2-1 techn. Points and in the final gave him a brief 1-0 points victory over the World Champion from 1989 Kenneth Monday from the United States to win the Olympic gold medal.
In 1993, Park Jang -soon took in Toronto and the world title at welterweight. He defeated in the final battle to the strong American David Schultz, multiple world champion and Olympic champion on points. In 1994, he started only at the Asian Games in Hiroshima and finished there welterweight behind Behrouz Ayri Kalani from Iran and Takuya Ota from Japan "only" the 3rd place.
1995 paused Park Jang -soon at the international championships. In 1996, he first started at the Asian Championships in Xiaoshan in China, where he at welterweight against Magomed Kuruglijew from Kazakhstan and Issa Momeni from Iran the title un then also won at the Olympic Games in Atlanta. In Atlanta, he struggled with convincing performance again in the final battle before, in which he but the Russians Buwaisar Saitijew clearly with 0:5 techn. Points subject. He thus won the gold medal after the 1992 already his second Olympic silver medal.
After the 1996 Olympics ended Park Jang -soon his career as an active wrestler. He has since worked as a wrestler coaches at the Samsung Insurance in Seoul.
International success
Swell
- Website of the Institute for Applied Training Science of the University of Leipzig,
- Website " sports123.com "
- Journal The Ringer