Park Joo-bong

Park Joo-bong, born on 5 December 1964, is a South Korean former badminton player who excelled from the early 1980s through the mid-1990s and was a member of the national team from 1981 to 1996. In the first year that badminton was an official Olympic medal sport he won the men's doubles gold medal at the 1992 Barcelona Games with Kim Moon-soo, and in 1996 he won the silver medal in mixed doubles with Ra Kyung-min. He was a two-time World men's doubles champion and a three-time World mixed doubles champion, and he won nine All England Open titles. Although mainly a doubles player, he holds the South Korean record of 103 consecutive men's singles wins, from 1981 to 1984, and in 2001 he became the first Korean inducted into the Badminton Hall of Fame.