Nationality South Korea Role Olympic athlete Class(es) Dinghy, match race Height 1.74 m | Club Busan Match Team Weight 64 kg Name Park Gun-woo | |
Born 31 March 1981 (age 43) ( 1981-03-31 ) Seoul, South Korea | ||
Park Gun-Woo (also Park Geon-Wu, Korean: 박건우; born March 31, 1981 in Seoul) is a South Korean sailor, who specialized in two-person dinghy (470) and open match racing classes. He claimed a bronze medal, as a member of the South Korean sailing team, in match racing at the 2010 Asian Games, and later represented South Korea at the 2012 Summer Olympics. As of September 2013, Park is ranked no. 134 in the world for two-person dinghy class by the International Sailing Federation.
Park made his official debut at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, where he captured a bronze medal for the South Korean team in a match duel against the host nation China with a scintillating record of 3–1.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Park competed as a boat skipper in the men's 470 class by receiving a berth from the World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. Teaming with his crew member and partner Cho Sung-Min in the opening series, Park pulled off a twenty-second-place finish in a fleet of twenty-seven boats with an accumulated net score of 169 points.