Park Gun-woo
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| Nationality |
 South Korea | ||||||||||||
| Born |
31 March 1981 Seoul, South Korea | ||||||||||||
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 64 kg (141 lb) | ||||||||||||
| Sailing career | |||||||||||||
| Class(es) | Dinghy, match race | ||||||||||||
| Club | Busan Match Team[1] | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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Park Gun-Woo (also Park Geon-Wu, Korean: 박건우; born March 31, 1981 in Seoul) is a South Korean sailor, who specialized in two-person dinghy (470) and open match racing classes.[1][2] He claimed a bronze medal, as a member of the South Korean sailing team, in match racing at the 2010 Asian Games, and later represented South Korea at the 2012 Summer Olympics. As of September 2013, Park is ranked no. 134 in the world for two-person dinghy class by the International Sailing Federation.
Park made his official debut at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, where he captured a bronze medal for the South Korean team in a match duel against the host nation China with a scintillating record of 3–1.[3]
At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Park competed as a boat skipper in the men's 470 class by receiving a berth from the World Championships in Barcelona, Spain.[4] Teaming with his crew member and partner Cho Sung-Min in the opening series, Park pulled off a twenty-second-place finish in a fleet of twenty-seven boats with an accumulated net score of 169 points.[5]
References
- 1 2 "Park Gun-Woo". London 2012. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
- ↑ "Park Gun-Woo". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
- ↑ "16th Asian Games Crowns Champions in China". ISAF. 22 November 2010. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
- ↑ "Olympic Qualification Secured on Day 3 at 470 Worlds". 470 World Championships. 15 May 2012. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
- ↑ "Men's 470". London 2012. Retrieved 27 November 2012.