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Park Jang-soon
Park
Jang-Soon
is a retired
South Korean
freestyle wrestler
,
world champion
and
Olympic champion
.
Olympics
He received a
silver medal
at the
1988 Summer Olympics
in
Seoul
.
He won a
gold medal
at the
1992 Summer Olympics
in
Barcelona
.
At the
1996 Summer Olympics
in
Atlanta
he received a silver medal.
World
championships
Park won a gold medal at the
1993 FILA Wrestling World Championships
in
Toronto
, defeating former
Olympic
and world champion
Dave Schultz
in the
final
match. He became the first
South
Korean
wrestler
to win both a wrestling
world championship
and an
Olympic gold medal
.