South Korea competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 to 18 September 2016.
Disability classifications
Every participant at the Paralympics has their disability grouped into one of five disability categories; amputation, the condition may be congenital or sustained through injury or illness; cerebral palsy; wheelchair athletes, there is often overlap between this and other categories; visual impairment, including blindness; Les autres, any physical disability that does not fall strictly under one of the other categories, for example dwarfism or multiple sclerosis. Each Paralympic sport then has its own classifications, dependent upon the specific physical demands of competition. Events are given a code, made of numbers and letters, describing the type of event and classification of the athletes competing. Some sports, such as athletics, divide athletes by both the category and severity of their disabilities, other sports, for example swimming, group competitors from different categories together, the only separation being based on the severity of the disability.
Medalists Medal Name Sport Event Jeong Ho-won Boccia Mixed individual BC3 Choi Gwang-geun Judo Men's 100 kg Jo Gi-seong Swimming Men's 50m freestyle S4 Jo Gi-seong Swimming Men's 100m freestyle S4 Jo Gi-seong Swimming Men's 200m freestyle S4 Lee In-kook Swimming Men's 100m backstroke S14 Choi Ilsang Kim Jung-gil Kim Young Gun Table tennis Men's teams - Class 4-5 Koo Dong-sub Kim Ok-guem Archery Team compound W1 Jeon Min-JaeAthletics Women's 200m T36 Choi Ye-jin Jeong Ho-won Kim Han-soo Boccia Mixed pairs BC3 Lee Do-yeon Cycling Women's road race H1-4 Lee Jung-min Judo Men's 81 kg Lee Ju-hee Shooting Men's 10m air pistol SH1 Kim Geun-soo Shooting Mixed 10m air rifle prone SH2 Woo Geun Lim Swimming Men's 100m breaststroke SB5 Joo Young-dae Table tennis Men's individual - Class 1 Cha Soo Yong Joo Young Dae Kim Kyung Mook Table tennis Men's team - Class 1-2 Seo Su-yeon Table tennis Women's individual - Class 1-2 Kim Mi-soon Archery Women's individual compound open Lee Ouk Soo Kim Mi-soon Archery Team compound open Kim Gyu Dae Athletics Men's 800m T54 Kim Gyu Dae Athletics Men's marathon T54 Yoo Won Jeong Boccia Mixed individual BC1 Seo Ha-na Judo Women's 57 kg Jin Song-lee Judo Women's 63 kg Kim Su-wan Shooting Men's 10m air rifle standing SH1 Lee Yun-ri Shooting Women's 50m rifle 3 positions SH1 Lee Ju-hee Shooting Mixed 25m pistol SH1 Lee Jang-ho Shooting Mixed 10m air rifle prone SH1 Kim Geun-soo Shooting Mixed 10m air rifle standing SH2 Nam Ki-won Table tennis Men's individual - Class 1 Jung Young-A Table tennis Women's individual - Class 5 Kim Seong-ok Table tennis Women's individual - Class 7 Women's team Table tennis Women's team - Class 1-3 Women's team Table tennis Women's team - Class 4-5
Archery
South Korea qualified seven archers for the Rio Games following their performance at the 2015 World Archery Para Championships. This included two spots in the compound open, 1 for a man and 1 for a woman, four spots in the recurve open with 3 for men and 1 for a woman, and 1 spot for a woman in the W1 event.
Athletics
Boccia
South Korea qualified for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in this sport at the Hong Kong hosted 2015 BISFed Asia and Oceania Boccia Team and Pairs Championships in the BC3 Pair event. They claimed gold ahead of silver medalist Thailand and bronze medalists Singapore. The pair team included Jeong Ho-won, Kim Han-soo, and Kim Jun-yup, and they were ranked second in the world at the time. They entered qualification as the number one seed in Asia in their event.
Cycling
With one pathway for qualification being one highest ranked NPCs on the UCI Para-Cycling male and female Nations Ranking Lists on 31 December 2014, South Korea qualified for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio, assuming they continued to meet all other eligibility requirements.
Judo
AthleteEventQuarterfinalsSemifinalsRepechageBronze medalFinalOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultRankSonglee JinWomen's 63 kg
Powerlifting
Rowing
Shooting
The first opportunity to qualify for shooting at the Rio Games took place at the 2014 IPC Shooting World Championships in Suhl. Shooters earned spots for their NPC. South Korea earned a qualifying spot at this event in the R1 – 10m Air Rifle standing men SH1 event as a result of Seungchul Lee winning a silver medal. Teammate Jinho Park set an Asian record in the R1 – 10m Air Rifle standing men SH1 qualifying round. South Korea qualified another shooter in the R7 – 50m rifle 3 positions Men SH1 event after Jinho Park won a bronze medal in this event. South Korea earned a spot in the P1 – 10m Air Pistol Men SH1 event after Heejung Lee won gold in the event. Jinho Park qualified South Korea for the R3 – 10Mm Air Rifle Prone Mix SH1 event.
Swimming
The top two finishers in each Rio medal event at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships earned a qualifying spot for their country for Rio. Giseong Jo earned South Korea a spot after winning gold in the Men's 200m Freestyle S4.
Table tennis
Wheelchair tennis South Korea qualified two competitors in the men's single event, Im Ho-won and Ha-Gel Lee.The slots came about via a Bipartite Commission Invitation place. South Korea qualified one player in the women's singles event, Ju-Youn Park.
See also
South Korea at the Paralympics South Korea at the 2016 Summer Olympics
References