South Korea at the 1972 Summer Paralympics

South Korea at the Paralympic Games
Flag of South Korea IPC code  KOR NPC Korean Paralympic Committee
At the 1972 Summer Paralympics in Heidelberg
Competitors	in 4 sports
Medals Rank: 16	Gold 4	Silver 2	Bronze 1	Total 7
Paralympic history (summary)
Summer Games
1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012
Winter Games
1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014

South Korea competed at the 1972 Summer Paralympics in Heidelberg, West Germany.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Cho Keum-Im	Archery	Women's St. Nicholas round paraplegic
Gold	Song Sin-Nam	Table tennis	Men's Singles 1B
Gold	Choi Tae-Am	Table tennis	Men's Singles 2
Gold	South Korea	Table tennis	Men's Teams 3
Silver	Heo Yong Cho Keum-Im Lee Hae-Sik	Archery	Mixed St. Nicholas round team paraplegic
Silver	Kim Keun-Soo Cho Keum-Im	Dartchery	Mixed pairs open
Bronze	Kim Keun-Soo	Archery	Men's short western round open

Archery

Athlete	Event	Final
		Points	Rank
Kim Keun-Soo	Men's short western round open	741
Kim Yoon-Bae	Men's short western round open	734	T4
Lee Hae-Sik	Men's St. Nicholas round paraplegic	680	9
Heo Yong	Men's St. Nicholas round paraplegic	676	13
Cho Keum-Im	Women's St. Nicholas round paraplegic	680
Heo Yong Cho Keum-Im Lee Hae-Sik	Mixed St. Nicholas round team paraplegic	2036

Athletics

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Park Yeon-Kyu	Men's 100 m wheelchair 4	34.1	41	DNQ	41
Song Sin-Nam	Men's 60 m wheelchair 1B	40.7	24	DNQ	24
	Men's Discus throw 1B	n/a		9.60	8
	Men's Shot put 1B	n/a		4.01	6

Dartchery

Athlete	Event	Rank
Kim Keun-Soo Cho Keum-Im	Mixed pairs open

Table tennis

Individual competition

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Song Sin-Nam	Men's Singles 1B	Pimmelar (NED) W 2–0	S. Bradshaw (GBR) W 2–0	Daniel Jeannin (FRA) W 2–0
Choi Tae-Am	Men's Singles 2	Manfred Emmel (FRG) W 2–0	Giuseppe Trieste (ITA) W 2–0	Lesli Lam (HKG) W 2–0
Choi Keum-Im	Women's Singles 4	I. Schmidt (NED) L 0–2

Team competition

Men's Teams 2 — Preliminaries

South Korea	1–3	Sweden

Team (Group A)	Pld	W	L	Pts
Sweden	2	2	0	6:2
Denmark	1	0	1	1:3
South Korea	1	0	1	1:3

Men's Teams 3 — Preliminaries

South Korea	0–3	France
South Korea	3–0	Switzerland

Team (Group B)	Pld	W	L	Pts
France	2	2	0	6:0
South Korea	2	1	1	3:3
Switzerland	2	0	2	0:6

Men's Teams 4

— South Korea

References

• IPC