Pak Jong-ran

Pak Jong-ran (Korean: 박정란; born March 24, 1966) is a North Korean sport shooter.[2] She won two gold medals in the women's skeet at the 1990 Asian Games in Beijing, China, and at the 1991 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Perth, Western Australia, with scores of 197 and 191 targets, respectively.[1][3]

Pak Jong-ran

Personal information
Nationality	North Korea
Born	(1966-03-24) 24 March 1966
Height	1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight	60 kg (132 lb)
Sport
Sport	Shooting
Event(s)	Skeet
Club	D.P.R.K. Shootong Sport Association[1]
Coached by	Sim Jae-gun[1]
Medal record Women's shooting Representing  North Korea Asian Games 1990 Beijing Skeet World Championships 1991 Perth Skeet

Pak made her official debut for the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, where she placed thirty-third in mixed skeet shooting, with a score of 144 hits, tying her position with eight other shooters including Egypt's Mohamed Khorshed and Norway's Harald Jensen.[1]

Sixteen years after competing in her last Olympics, Pak qualified for her second North Korean team, as a 42-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by winning the gold medal in the women's skeet from the 2007 Asian Shooting Championships in Kuwait City, Kuwait.[3] She placed ninth in the qualifying rounds of the women's skeet shooting, by three points ahead of Romania's Lucia Mihalache from the second attempt, with a total score of 66 targets.[4]