Pak Jong-ran (; born March 24, 1966) is a North Korean sport shooter. 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.

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.

Pak Jong-ran

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. 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.

Pak Jong-ran

References

External links

NBC 2008 Olympics profile

North Korean female sport shooters

Skeet shooters

Living people

Olympic shooters for North Korea

Shooters at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Shooters at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Asian Games medalists in shooting

1966 births

Shooters at the 1990 Asian Games

Shooters at the 2002 Asian Games

Shooters at the 2006 Asian Games

Asian Games gold medalists for North Korea

Asian Games silver medalists for North Korea

Medalists at the 1990 Asian Games

Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games

20th-century North Korean women

21st-century North Korean women

Pak Jong-ran