Pak Jong-ran

Pak Jong-ran (Korean: 박정란; born March 24, 1966) is a North Korean sport shooter.[2] She won two gold medals in the women's skeet at the 1990 Asian Games in Beijing, China, and at the 1991 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Perth, Western Australia, with scores of 197 and 191 targets, respectively.[1][3]

Pak Jong-ran
Personal information
Nationality North Korea
Born (1966-03-24) 24 March 1966
Height1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight60 kg (132 lb)
Sport
SportShooting
Event(s)Skeet
ClubD.P.R.K. Shootong Sport
Association[1]
Coached bySim Jae-gun[1]
Medal record
Women's shooting
Representing  North Korea
Asian Games
1990 Beijing Skeet
World Championships
1991 Perth Skeet
Pak Jong-ran
Chosŏn'gŭl
박정란
Revised RomanizationBak Jeongnan
McCune–ReischauerPak Chŏngnan
In this Korean name, the family name is Pak.

Pak made her official debut for the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, where she placed thirty-third in mixed skeet shooting, with a score of 144 hits, tying her position with eight other shooters including Egypt's Mohamed Khorshed and Norway's Harald Jensen.[1]

Sixteen years after competing in her last Olympics, Pak qualified for her second North Korean team, as a 42-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by winning the gold medal in the women's skeet from the 2007 Asian Shooting Championships in Kuwait City, Kuwait.[3] She placed ninth in the qualifying rounds of the women's skeet shooting, by three points ahead of Romania's Lucia Mihalache from the second attempt, with a total score of 66 targets.[4]

References
  1. "ISSF Profile – Pak Jong-Ran". ISSF. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
  2. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Pak Jong-Ran". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
  3. "A bumper day for DPR Korean shooters". Xinhua News Agency. China Daily. 12 December 2007. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
  4. "Women's Skeet Qualification". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 20 August 2012. Retrieved 21 January 2013.


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