Park Myung-Suk (also Park Myeong-Seok; 박명석; born January 9, 1970) is a South Korean former Olympic wrestler.

Wrestling career

His sports club is Ma San City Hall.

Park Myung-suk

Park won the gold medals at the 1989 Asian Wrestling Championships: 74.0 kg Greco-Roman, the 1992 and 1993 Asian Championships: 82.0 kg Greco-Roman, and the 1997 and 1998 Asian Championships: 85.0 kg Greco-Roman.

Park Myung-suk

He competed for South Korea at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, at the age of 22, in Wrestling--Men's Middleweight (82 kg), Greco-Roman. He lost to Thomas Zander of Germany in the first round, beat Jean-Pierre Wafflard of Belgium in the second round, and was defeated by Magnus Fredriksson of Sweden in the third round.

Park Myung-suk

Park also competed for South Korea at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta at the age of 26 in Wrestling--Men's Middleweight (82 kg), Greco-Roman, and came in 14th.

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Living people

South Korean male sport wrestlers

Wrestlers at the 1992 Summer Olympics

1970 births

Olympic wrestlers for South Korea

Wrestlers at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Wrestlers at the 1998 Asian Games

Wrestlers at the 2002 Asian Games

Asian Games medalists in wrestling

Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games

Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games

Asian Games gold medalists for South Korea

Asian Games silver medalists for South Korea

Asian Wrestling Championships medalists

20th-century South Korean people

21st-century South Korean people