Park Chan-hee (

Hangul The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul, . Hangul may also be written as following South Korea's standard Romanization. ( ) in South Korea and Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea, is the modern official writing system for the Korean language. The let ...

: 박찬희,

Hanja Hanja (Hangul: ; Hanja: , ), alternatively known as Hancha, are Chinese characters () used in the writing of Korean. Hanja was used as early as the Gojoseon period, the first ever Korean kingdom. (, ) refers to Sino-Korean vocabulary, wh ...

: 朴贊希; born 23 March 1957) is a retired

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...

boxer Boxer most commonly refers to: * Boxer (boxing), a competitor in the sport of boxing *Boxer (dog), a breed of dog Boxer or boxers may also refer to: Animal kingdom * Boxer crab * Boxer shrimp, a small group of decapod crustaceans * Boxer snipe ee ...

. As a professional he held the WBC and lineal titles in the

flyweight Flyweight is a weight class in combat sports. Boxing Flyweight is a class in boxing which includes fighters weighing above 49 kg (108 lb) and up to 51 kg (112 lb). Professional boxing The flyweight division was the last of bo ...

division. As an amateur he won a gold medal at the 1974 Asian Games and placed fifth at the

1976 Summer Olympics Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 Phi ...

Amateur career

Park competed at the 1976 Montreal

Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a var ...

as a Light Flyweight for South Korea. His results were: *Defeated Abderahim Najim (Morocco) DQ 3 *Defeated Alican Az (Turkey) 5–0 *Lost to Jorge Hernandez (Cuba) 2–3

Pro career

Park turned professional in 1976 and became the WBC and lineal flyweight champion with a decision win over

Miguel Canto Miguel Angel Canto Solis (born January 30, 1948) is a Mexican former world boxing champion who held the WBC and Lineal flyweight titles. Boxing life Unlike many Mexican boxers, Canto was not a "slam-bang" type of boxer ("Slam-Bang" boxers ...

in 1979. He lost the titles to

Shoji Oguma Shoji Oguma (大熊正二 born July 22, 1951 in Koriyama, Japan) is a Japanese former professional boxer who held the WBC and Lineal titles in the Flyweight division. Professional career Oguma turned pro in 1970 and in 1974 won the WBC Flyw ...

by KO in 1980.

Honors

* Named ''The Ring'' magazine Progress of the Year fighter for 1979.

Professional boxing record

References

External links