Personal information | |
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Born | Seoul, South Korea | 12 October 1925
Korean name | |
Hangul | 심명희 |
Hanja | 沈明熙 |
Revised Romanization | Sim Myeonghui |
McCune–Reischauer | Sim Myŏnghŭi |
Sport | |
Sport | Sports shooting |
Sim Myeong-hui (born 12 October 1925) is a South Korean former sports shooter. He competed in the trap event at the 1960 Summer Olympics. [1]
The Korean Sport & Olympic Committee initially chose Sim to represent the country in the trap event at the 1956 Summer Olympics, but in the end he did not participate. [2] [3] He worked for Daidong Transport, [lower-alpha 1] and represented the company at South Korea's Workplace Defense Shooting Championships [lower-alpha 2] in 1959, coming in first place in first place in the individual division. [4] At the 1960 Summer Olympics, he did not progress to the finals. [5] In 1965 when the Korean Shooting Association [lower-alpha 3] split off separate associations for rifle and trap shooting, he became a member of the board of directors of the trap shooting association. [6]
Sim also enjoyed fishing and cooking. [7] He was one of the founding members of the Gwangju Central Fishing Association [lower-alpha 4] in 1967, and became its first vice-president. [8]
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