South Korea at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

South Korea at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
IPC code	KOR
NPC	Korea Paralympic Committee
Website	www.koreanpc.kr  (in Korean)
in Tokyo
Competitors	86 in 14 sports
Medals	Gold 2 Silver 10 Bronze 12 Total 24
Summer Paralympics appearances (overview)
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South Korea competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, from 24 August to 5 September 2021. ^{[1] [2]}

Medalists

Main article: 2020 Summer Paralympics medal table

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Joo Young-dae	Table tennis	Men's individual – Class 1	30 August
Gold	Jeong Ho-won Kim Han-soo Choi Ye-jin	Boccia	Mixed pairs BC3	4 September
Silver	Seo Su-yeon	Table tennis	Women's individual class 1–2	28 August
Silver	Kim Hyeon-uk	Table tennis	Men's individual – Class 1	30 August
Silver	Kim Young-gun	Table tennis	Men's individual – Class 4	30 August
Silver	Park Jin-ho	Shooting	Mixed R3 10 metre air rifle prone SH1	1 September
Silver	Kim Jung-gil Kim Young-gun	Table tennis	Men's team class 4–5	1 September
Silver	Yoon Ji-yu Lee Mi-gyu	Table tennis	Women's team class 1–3	2 September
Silver	Cha Soo-yong Park Jin-cheol	Table tennis	Men's team class 1–2	3 September
Silver	Lee Sam-seop	Badminton	Men's singles WH1	4 September
Silver	Kim Jung-jun	Badminton	Men's singles WH2	5 September
Silver	Kim Jung-jun Lee Dong-seop	Badminton	Men's doubles WH1–WH2	5 September
Bronze	Lee Mi-gyu	Table tennis	Women's individual class 3	28 August
Bronze	Yoon Ji-yu	Table tennis	Women's individual class 3	28 August
Bronze	Park Jin-cheol	Table tennis	Men's individual class 2	28 August
Bronze	Cha Soo-yong	Table tennis	Men's individual class 2	28 August
Bronze	Nam Ki-won	Table tennis	Men's individual class 2	28 August
Bronze	Jung Young-a	Table tennis	Women's individual class 5	28 August
Bronze	Lee Jung-min	Judo	Men's 81 kg	28 August
Bronze	Choi Gwang-geun	Judo	Men's +100 kg	29 August
Bronze	Park Jin-ho	Shooting	Men's R1 10 metre air rifle standing SH1	30 August
Bronze	Shim Young-jip	Shooting	Men's R7 50 metre rifle 3 positions SH1	3 September
Bronze	Joo Jeong-hun	Taekwondo	Men's 75 kg	3 September
Bronze	Lee Dong-seop	Badminton	Men's singles WH1	4 September

Competitors

Source: ^[3]

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Archery	2	4	6
Athletics	1	1	2
Badminton	5	2	7
Boccia	5	2	7
Cycling	1	2	3
Judo	2	0	2
Powerlifting	2	3	5
Rowing	0	1	1
Shooting	8	4	12
Swimming	4	1	5
Table Tennis	11	8	19
Taekwondo	1	0	1
Wheelchair Basketball	12	0	12
Wheelchair Tennis	4	0	4
Total	58	28	86

Archery

Main article: Archery at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

South Korea has qualified three archers in Women's Individual W1, Women's Individual Recurve, and Mixed Team Recurve. ^[4]

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Yoo Byung-hoon qualified in Men's 400m, 800m T53 events, while Jeon Min-jae qualified in Women's 200m T36.

Badminton

Main articles: Badminton at the 2020 Summer Paralympics and Badminton at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Qualification

South Korea has qualified a total of nine para badminton players for each of the following events into the Paralympic tournament based on the Para Badminton World Rankings. ^[5]

Men

Athlete	Event	Group Stage				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Lee Dong-seop	Singles WH1	Homhual  (THA) W (23–21, 21–16)	Wandschneider  (GER) W (17–21, 21–19, 21–17)	—	1 Q	Bye	Lee S-s  (KOR) L (21–19, 7–21, 20–22)	Murayama  (JPN) W (22–20, 17–21, 21–14)
Lee Sam-seop		Murayama  (JPN) L (21–15, 13–21, 17–21)	Mi  (GER) W (21–18, 21–13)	—	2 Q	Homhual  (THA) W (21–14, 21–16)	Lee D-s  (KOR) W (19–21, 21–7, 22–20)	Qu  (CHN) L (6–21, 6r–11)
Kim Jung-jun	Singles WH2	Kim K-h  (KOR) W (21–19, 21–15)	Manzoney  (AUS) W (21–8, 21–9)	—	1 Q	Bye	Chan  (HKG) W (15–21, 21–15, 21–15)	Kajiwara  (JPN) L (18–21, 19–21)
Kim Kyung-hoon		Kim J-j  (KOR) L (19–21, 15–21)	Manzoney  (AUS) W (21–8, 21–5)	—	2 Q	Mai  (CHN) W (21–13, 21–12)	Kajiwara  (JPN) L (14–21, 15–21)	Chan  (HKG) L (22–24, 10–21)	4
Shin Kyung-hwan	Singles SL4	Setiawan  (INA) L (8–21, 9–21)	Dhillon  (IND) L (18–21, 21–15, 17–21)	Teamarrom  (THA) W (21–17, 21–8)	3	—	Did not advance
Lee Dong-seop Kim Jung-jun	Doubles WH1–WH2	Homhual / Junthong  (THA) W (21–19, 21–12)	Toupé / Jakobs  (FRA) W (21–11, 21–13)	—	1 Q	—	Homhual / Junthong  (THA) W (21–18, 21–13)	Mai / Qu  (CHN) L (10–21, 14–21)

Women

Athlete	Event	Group Stage			Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Kang Jung-kum	Singles WH1	Satomi  (JPN) L (12–21, 7–21)	Yin  (CHN) L (16–21, 14–21)	3	Did not advance
Lee Sun-ae	Singles WH2	Yamazaki  (JPN) L (20–22, 16–21)	Seçkin  (TUR) L (21–12, 9–21, 16–21)	3	Did not advance
Kang Jung-kum Lee Sun-ae	Doubles WH1–WH2	Satomi / Yamazaki  (JPN) L (12–21, 5–21)	Pookkham / Wetwithan  (THA) L (9–21, 16–21)	3	—	Did not advance

Boccia

Main article: Boccia at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Six South Korean athletes qualified in Individual BC1, BC2, and BC3 events. ^[6]

Cycling

Main article: Cycling at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

South Korea sent one male & one female cyclist after successfully receiving a slot in the 2018 UCI Nations Ranking Allocation Asian quota. ^{[7] [8] [9]}

Powerlifting

Main article: Powerlifting at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Athlete	Event	Total lifted	Rank
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Rowing

Main article: Rowing at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

South Korea qualified one boat in the women's single sculls for the games by winning the B-final at the 2019 World Rowing Championships in Ottensheim, Austria and securing the last of the seven available places. ^[10]

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Kim Se-jeong	Women's single sculls	12:19.02	3	11:04.59	3	12:18.83	7 (FB)

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); R=Repechage

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Fourteen South Korean shooters have qualified.

• Park Chul (Mixed 25m Pistol SH1)
• Moon Aee-kyung (Mixed 50m Pistol SH1)
• Park Jin-ho & Lee Seung-chul (Men's 10m Air Rifle Standing SH1)
• Sim Jae-yong & Lee Jang-ho (Mixed 10m Air Rifle Prone SH1)
• Lee Ji-seok (Mixed 10m Air Rifle Standing SH2)
• Ju Sung-chul (Mixed 50m Rifle Prone SH1)
• Shim Young-jip (Men's 50m Rifle 3 Position)
• Lee Yun-ri & Kang Myung-soon (Women's 50m Rifle Three Position)

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Five South Korean swimmers have successfully qualified for the Paralympic slot after passing the MQS. ^{[11] [12]}

Table tennis

Main article: Table tennis at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

South Korea entered sixteen athletes into the table tennis competition at the games. Five athletes qualified from the 2019 ITTF Asian Para Championships which was held in Taichung, Taiwan and eleven athletes from the World Ranking allocation. ^[13]

Men

Athlete	Event	Group Stage			Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Joo Young-dae	Individual C1	Falco  (ITA) W 3-0	Eberhardt  (ARG) W 3-0	1 Q	—	Izquierdo  (CUB) W 3-2	Nam  (KOR) W 3-0	Kim H-u  (KOR) W 3-1
Kim Hyeon-uk		Keller  (SUI) W 3-0	Izquierdo  (CUB) W 3-0	1 Q	—	Falco  (ITA) W 3-0	Matthews  (GBR) W 3-0	Joo  (KOR) L 1-3
Nam Ki-won		Lavrov  (RPC) W 3-0	Matthews  (GBR) L 1-3	2 Q	—	Major  (HUN) W 3-0	Joo  (KOR) L 0-3	Did not advance
Park Jin-cheol	Individual C2	Reyes Turcio  (MEX) W 3-0	Perlic  (SRB) W 3-0	1 Q	Bye	Ludrovský  (SVK) W 3-2	Czuper  (POL) L 1-3	Did not advance
Cha Soo-yong		Minami  (JPN) W 3-2	Riapoš  (SVK) W 3-0	1 Q	Bye	Yezyk  (UKR) W 3-1	Lamirault  (FRA) L 1-3	Did not advance
Baek Young-bok	Individual C3	Schmidberger  (GER) L 0-3	Toporkov  (RPC) L 2-3	3	Did not advance
Kim Young-gun	Individual C4	Mihálik  (SVK) W 3-2	Lopez Sayago  (ESP) W 3-1	1 Q	Bye	Saleh  (EGY) W 3-0	Turan  (TUR) W 3-1	Ozturk  (TUR) L 1-3
Kim Jung-gil		Nacházel  (CZE) L 1-3	Zylka  (POL) W 3-1	2 Q	Trávniček  (SVK) L 1-3	Did not advance
Park Hong-kyu	Individual C6	Hamadtou  (EGY) W 3-0	Chen  (CHN) W 3-1	1 Q	Bye	Karabardak  (GBR) L 2-3	Did not advance
Kim Gi-tae	Individual C11	Von Einem  (AUS) L 0-3	Asano  (JPN) W 3-1	3	Did not advance
Kim Chang-gi		Palos  (HUN) L 1-3	Kato  (JPN) W 3-1	2 Q	—	Van Acker  (BEL) L 1-3	Did not advance
Park Jin-cheol Cha Soo-yong	Team C1-2	—				Spain  (ESP) W 2-0	Poland  (POL) W 2-1	France  (FRA) L 0-2
Joo Young-dae Nam Ki-won	Team C3	—				Thailand  (THA) L 0-2	Did not advance
Kim Young-gun Kim Jung-gil	Team C4-5	—			Bye	Poland  (POL) W 2-1	France  (FRA) W 2-0	China  (CHN) L 0-2

Women

Athlete	Event	Group Stage			Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Seo Su-yeon	Individual C1-2	Almyrisl  (KSA) W 3-0	Pushpasheva  (RPC) W 3-2	1 Q	—	Prvulovic  (SRB) W 3-0	Oliveira  (BRA) W 3-1	Liu  (CHN) L 1-3
Lee Mi-gyu	Individual C3	Li  (CHN) W 3-0	Patel  (IND) W 3-1	1 Q	Bye	Brunelli  (ITA) W 3-0	Kánová  (SVK) L 1-3	Did not advance
Yoon Ji-yu		Amaral Santos  (BRA) W 3-0	Kánová  (SVK) W 3-0	1 Q	Bye	Mužinić  (CRO) W 3-1	Xue  (CHN) L 2-3	Did not advance
Jung Young-a	Individual C5	Pan  (CHN) W 3-2	Leonelli  (CHI) W 3-0	1 Q	—	Sringam  (THA) W 3-1	Zhang  (CHN) L 0-3	Did not advance
Lee Kun-woo	Individual C6	Alieva  (RPC) L 1-3	Aldayyeni  (IRQ) W 3-1	2 Q	—	Chebanika  (RPC) L 2-3	Did not advance
Moon Sung-keum		Chebanika  (RPC) L 1-3	Grebe  (GER) L 0-3	3	—	Did not advance
Kim Seong-ok	Individual C7	Wang  (CHN) L 0-3	dos Santos  (BRA) W 3-0	2 Q	—	van Zon  (NED) L 1-3	Did not advance
Yoon Ji-yu Lee Mi-gyu	Team C1-3	—				Brazil  (BRA) W 2-1	Croatia  (CRO) W 2-0	China  (CHN) L 0-2
Kim Seong-ok Lee Kun-woo	Team C6-8	—				France  (FRA) L 0-2	Did not advance

Taekwondo

Main article: Taekwondo at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

South Korea qualified one athlete. Joo Jeong-hun qualified by winning the gold medal at the 2021 Asian Qualification Tournament in Amman, Jordan.

Athlete	Event	First round	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Joo Jeong-hun	Men's –75 kg	Isaldibirov  (RPC) L 31–35	Did not advance		Çelik  (TUR) W 40–31	Abuzarli  (AZE) W 46-32	Isaldibirov  (RPC) W 24-14

Wheelchair basketball

Main article: Wheelchair basketball at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

South Korea's men's wheelchair basketball team qualified for the 2020 Summer Paralympics after finishing in top three at the 2019 IWBF Asia Oceania Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Pattaya, Thailand.

Roster

The following is the Republic of Korea roster in the men's wheelchair basketball tournament of the 2020 Summer Paralympics. ^{[14] [15]}

Republic of Korea men's national wheelchair basketball team - 2020 Summer Paralympics roster
Players	Coaches
No. Name Age – Date of birth Pts. Club Ctr. 4 Kim Ho-yong 49 – (1972-03-03)3 March 1972 3.0 Jeju 6 Hwang Woo-sung 38 – (1982-11-22)22 November 1982 2.0 Jeju 7 Kim Tae-ok 33 – (1987-08-25)25 August 1987 2.5 Seoul 10 Oh Dong-suk 33 – (1987-11-11)11 November 1987 2.0 Seoul 11 Kwak Jun-seong 31 – (1989-12-08)8 December 1989 1.0 Seoul 12 Yang Dong-gil 29 – (1991-09-11)11 September 1991 4.0 Seoul 16 Lee Youn-joo 36 – (1984-11-29)29 November 1984 3.5 Seoul 23 Cho Seung-hyun 37 – (1983-12-01)1 December 1983 4.0 Chuncheon 24 Lee Chi-won 41 – (1980-03-12)12 March 1980 2.5 Chuncheon 39 Kim Sang-yeol 38 – (1983-04-15)15 April 1983 4.0 Chuncheon 40 Gim Dong-hyeon 32 – (1988-09-24)24 September 1988 4.0 Jeju 44 Lee Byoung-jai 40 – (1981-07-13)13 July 1981 1.0 Chuncheon	Head coach Ko Kwang-yub Assistant coach(es) Kim Young-moo Legend Age - describes age on 24 August 2021

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spain	5	5	0	375	272	+103	10	Quarter-finals
2	Japan (H)	5	4	1	312	298	+14	9
3	Turkey	5	3	2	353	327	+26	8
4	Canada	5	2	3	307	333	−26	7
5	South Korea	5	1	4	305	332	−27	6	9th/10th place playoff
6	Colombia	5	0	5	256	346	−90	5	11th/12th place playoff

Source: TOCOG
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head results; 3) Points difference; 4) Points scored.
(H) Hosts

25 August 2021 (2021-08-25) 20:30

Report

Spain	65–53	South Korea
Scoring by quarter: 16–10, 15–14, 12–16, 22–13
Pts: García 18 Rebs: García 13 Asts: García 12		Pts: Gim 24 Rebs: Gim 14 Asts: Cho 8

Musashino Forest Sport Plaza Referees: Matias Quintana

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26 August 2021 (2021-08-26) 17:00

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South Korea	70–80	Turkey
Scoring by quarter: 15–21, 18–17, 15–19, 22–23
Pts: Cho 26 Rebs: Gim 11 Asts: Cho 8		Pts: Gürbulak 25 Rebs: Toprak 8 Asts: Gürbulak 13

Musashino Forest Sport Plaza Attendance: 40 Referees: Tomas Pajer

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27 August 2021 (2021-08-27) 20:30

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Japan	59–52	South Korea
Scoring by quarter: 14–9, 17–12, 16–15, 12–16
Pts: Fujimoto 21 Rebs: Akita 11 Asts: Chokai 10		Pts: Cho 21 Rebs: Gim 14 Asts: Cho 6

Ariake Arena Referees: Krunoslav Peic

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28 August 2021 (2021-08-28) 20:30

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South Korea	66–54	Colombia
Scoring by quarter: 19–10, 16–17, 18–10, 13–17
Pts: Lee C. 14 Rebs: Lee Y. 13 Asts: Oh 11		Pts: Hernandez 21 Rebs: Sanz 8 Asts: Hernandez 9

Musashino Forest Sport Plaza Attendance: 0 Referees: Hiroki Ono

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29 August 2021 (2021-08-29) 17:00

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Canada	74–64	South Korea
Scoring by quarter: 21–17, 15–15, 17–15, 21–17
Pts: Anderson 29 Rebs: Anderson 9 Asts: Goncin 10		Pts: Cho 22 Rebs: Kim S. 9 Asts: Gim 7

Ariake Arena Referees: Ben Wood

9th–10th classification match

2 September 2021 (2021-09-02) 12:30

Report

South Korea	54–64	Iran
Scoring by quarter: 16–10, 14–16, 12–21, 12–17
Pts: Cho 17 Rebs: Gim 9 Asts: Cho 7		Pts: Sayari 26 Rebs: Sayari 11 Asts: Kamali, Tolouei Tamardash 8

Ariake Arena Referees: Ben Wood

Wheelchair tennis

Main article: Wheelchair tennis at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

South Korea qualified four player entries for wheelchair tennis. Two of them qualified through the world rankings, while two others qualified under bipartite commission invitation allocation quotas.

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Im Ho-won	Men's singles
Oh Sang-ho
Kim Kyu-seung	Quad singles	—
Kim Myung-je

See also

• South Korea at the Paralympics
• South Korea at the 2020 Summer Olympics

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