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Park Sang-young
Hangul	박상영
Hanja	朴相泳
Revised Romanization	Bak Sang-yeong
McCune–Reischauer	Pak Sangyŏng

Park Sang-young
Park Sang-young
	Park at Trophée Monal 2014
Personal information
Born	16 October 1995 (age 29); Jinju, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea
Height	177 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Sport
Country	South Korea
Weapon	Épée
Hand	right-handed
Club	Ulsan Metropolitan City Hall
FIE ranking	current ranking
Medal record
Representing South Korea
Olympic Games
World Championships
Asian Games
Asian Championships
Junior World Championships

Park Sang-young (Korean pronunciation: [pak̚.s͈aŋ.jʌŋ] or [pak̚] [saŋ.jʌŋ]; born 16 October 1995) is a South Korean right-handed épée fencer, three-time team Asian champion, 2021 team Olympic bronze medalist, and 2016 individual Olympic champion.^[1]

Early life

Park was introduced to fencing in middle school. He nearly had to give up the sport as his family could not afford the expensive equipment but financial aid from a non-profit charity and his admission into Gyeongnam Physical Education High School [ko], a public school, allowed him to continue to fencing.^[2]^[3]^[4] During his first year in high school, he won first place in the individual épée category at the national high school championships.^[4]

Career

Park was junior world champion in Moscow in 2012, becoming the first South Korean male junior fencer to win a medal in the épée event.^[5]^[4] He qualified for the senior national team in 2013 by winning the national championship, a rarity for a high school student as fencers generally competed at collegiate level before making the step up. Dubbed a "monster rookie", he made headlines by narrowly defeating veterans Kweon Young-jun and Jung Jin-sun.^[4]^[6]

Park joined the senior category in the 2013–14 season, during which he won the 2014 Doha Grand Prix and the 2014 Berne Grand Prix.^[7] As part of the South Korean team he won a gold medal at the 2014 Asian Fencing Championships in Suwon and at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon,^[8] as well as a silver medal at the 2014 World Fencing Championships.^[9] He finished the season world no.3.^[1]

The 2014–15 season proved more difficult for Park. He sustained a knee injury while fencing against Pavel Pitra of the Czech Republic in the table of 16 at the March Grand Prix in Budapest, Hungary.^[10] The injury prevented him from taking part in the 2015 Asian Championships and the World Championships. He returned to competition a year later, winning a bronze medal in the Vancouver world cup in February 2016.^[11]

Medal Record

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Event	Position
2016	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Individual Men's Épée	1st^[12]
2021	Tokyo, Japan	Team Men's Épée	3rd^[13]

World Championship

Year	Location	Event	Position
2014	Kazan, Russia	Team Men's Épée	2nd^[14]
2018	Wuxi, China	Team Men's Épée	2nd^[15]

Asian Championship

Year	Location	Event	Position
2014	Suwon, South Korea	Team Men's Épée	1st^[16]
2016	Wuxi, China	Individual Men's Épée	2nd^[17]
2016	Wuxi, China	Team Men's Épée	2nd^[18]
2017	Hong Kong, China	Team Men's Épée	1st^[19]
2019	Tokyo, Japan	Team Men's Épée	2nd^[20]
2022	Seoul, South Korea	Individual Men's Épée	3rd^[21]
2022	Seoul, South Korea	Team Men's Épée	1st^[22]

Grand Prix

Date	Location	Event	Position
2014-01-16	Doha, Qatar	Individual Men's Épée	1st^[23]
2014-05-10	Bern, Switzerland	Individual Men's Épée	1st^[24]
2017-12-08	Doha, Qatar	Individual Men's Épée	1st^[25]
2018-05-25	Cali, Colombia	Individual Men's Épée	3rd^[26]

World Cup

Date	Location	Event	Position
2016-02-12	Vancouver, Canada	Individual Men's Épée	3rd^[27]
2016-11-18	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Individual Men's Épée	1st^[28]
2017-10-27	Bern, Switzerland	Individual Men's Épée	1st^[29]
2019-05-17	Paris, France	Individual Men's Épée	1st^[30]
2020-01-09	Heidenheim, Germany	Individual Men's Épée	2nd^[31]

Personal life

Park is a graduate of Korea National Sport University.^[32]^[33] One of his contemporaries at university was pentathlete Jun Woong-tae, his close friend.^[34]^[35]