Park Sang-young

Park Sang-young ( or ; 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.

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 , a public school, allowed him to continue to fencing. During his first year in high school, he won first place in the individual épée category at the national high school championships.

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. 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, as well as a silver medal at the 2014 World Fencing Championships. He finished the season world no.3. 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.

Medal record

Olympic Games

World Championship

Asian Championship

Grand Prix

World Cup

Personal life Park is a graduate of Korea National Sport University. One of his contemporaries at university was pentathlete Jun Woong-tae, his close friend.