Park Young-sook (archer)
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Park Young-sook (Korean: 박영숙; born 4 August 1960), also known as Sally Park, is a South Korean former archer, archery judge and current coach.[1]
Archery competitor[edit]
Park won a gold medal at the World Archery Championships in 1979 in the women's team event and a silver medal in the same event two years later.[citation needed]
She won a gold medal at the 1982 Asian Games along with Kim Jin-ho and Kim Mi-young.[2]
At the 1984 Summer Olympic Games she came seventeenth with 2445 points scored in the women's individual event.[3] Park retired in 1987 after a shoulder injury.
After retirement[edit]
She coached the Italian recurve women's team to the gold medal at the World Archery Championships in 2011. Park moved on to coach the South Korean youth team and Singapore team. She coached Areneo David and he became Malawi's first Olympian in archery in 2016.[4]
Park received the World Archery Women's Award 2017.[5]
Park became head coach of the Bhutan national team in 2018.[6]
References[edit]
- ^ "YOUNG-SOOK PARK". www.olympic.org. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
- ^ "Women: Recurve Teams". sports123.com. Archived from the original on 26 April 2005. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
- ^ "Park Yeong-Suk". www.sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
- ^ Vasquez, Andrea. "'84 OLYMPIAN REMEMBERS KOREA'S DEBUT WORLDS: "WE SURPRISED EVERYONE"". worldarchery.org. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
- ^ Maitre-Wicki, Ludivine. "SALLY PARK RECEIVES WORLD ARCHERY WOMEN'S AWARD FOR 2017". worldarchery.org. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
- ^ Vasquez, Andrea. "SALLY PARK APPOINTED HEAD COACH IN BHUTAN". www.bow-international.com. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
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- 1960 births
- Living people
- South Korean female archers
- Olympic archers for South Korea
- Archers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- World Archery Championships medalists
- Asian Games medalists in archery
- Archers at the 1982 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 1982 Asian Games
- Asian Games gold medalists for South Korea
- 20th-century South Korean women
- 21st-century South Korean women