Sim Myeong-hui
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 12 October 1925 Seoul, South Korea |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 심명희 |
| Hanja | 沈明熙 |
| Revised Romanization | Sim Myeonghui |
| McCune–Reischauer | Sim Myŏnghŭi |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Sports shooting |
Sim Myeong-hui (Korean: 심명희; 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,[a] and represented the company at South Korea's Workplace Defense Shooting Championships[b] 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[c] 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[d] in 1967, and became its first vice-president.[8]
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Sim Myeong-hui". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
- ^ "五輪選手選定「레스링」과射擊" [Decision on Olympics competitors for wrestling and shooting]. Kyunghyang Shinmun. 24 September 1956. p. 3. Retrieved 22 January 2018 – via Naver News.
- ^ Doyle, Edward A. (ed.). "Shooting". The Official Report of the Organizing Committee for the Games of the XVI Olympiad, Melbourne, 1956 (PDF). Organizing Committee of the XVI Olympiad. p. 558. OCLC 224257408.
- ^ "財務部가一位 職場對抗射擊大會" [Ministry of Finance in first place in Workplace Defense Shooting Championships]. The Dong-A Ilbo. 7 September 1959. p. 3. Retrieved 22 January 2018 – via Naver News.
- ^ "寒心한慘敗의記錄" [Record of a sorrowful and tragic defeat]. Kyunghyang Shinmun. 12 September 1960. p. 4. Retrieved 22 January 2018 – via Naver News.
- ^ "射擊協會를分離 라이플과트랩" [Korean Shooting Association splits by rifle and trap]. The Dong-a Ilbo. 20 January 1965. p. 4. Retrieved 22 January 2018 – via Naver News.
- ^ "사격선수沈明熙씨 즉석에서일품料理" [Sports shooter Mr. Sim Myeong-hui's on-the-spot top-class cuisine]. Maeil Business Newspaper. 3 October 1967. p. 3. Retrieved 22 January 2018 – via Naver News.
- ^ "會長에金魯洙씨" [Mr. Kim No-su to be president of newly-founded Central Fishing Association 中央(중앙)낚시회創總]. Maeil Business Newspaper. 6 June 1967. p. 6. Retrieved 22 January 2018 – via Naver News.
