Song Soon-chun
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Men's Boxing | ||
Representing  South Korea
| ||
| Olympic Games | ||
 |
1956 Melbourne | Bantamweight |
| Asian Games | ||
 |
Tokyo 1958 | Featherweight |
Song Soon-Chun (Hangul: 송순천, Hanja: 宋順天) (born 15 January 1934 in Seoul, South Korea) is a former amateur boxer from South Korea.
Career
Song competed for South Korea in the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia. In the bantamweight boxing event, he captured the silver medal. His silver medal was South Korea's first silver medal at the Olympic Games.
Song participated in the Olympics one more time in 1960, moving up in weight to featherweight, but was eliminated in the second round by eventual gold medalist Francesco Musso of Italy.
Post career
After receiving his PhD, Song served as a full professor at Yong-In University for 22 years. He is currently the leader of the Korean Olympian Association, which was made up of the South Korean Olympic medalists.
Results
| 1956 Olympic Games | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Event | Round | Result | Opponent | Score |
| Bantamweight | First | Win |  Alberto Adela
|
pts |
| Second | Win |  Robert Bath
|
pts | |
| Quarterfinal | Win |  Carmelo Tomaselli
|
pts | |
| Semifinal | Win |  Claudio Barrientos
|
pts | |
| Final | Loss |  Wolfgang Behrendt
|
2-3 | |
| 1960 Olympic Games | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Event | Round | Result | Opponent | Score |
| Featherweight | First | Win |  Joseph Okezie
|
3-2 |
| Second | Loss |  Francesco Musso
|
0-5 | |
References
  | This article about a South Korean Olympic medalist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 | This biographical article relating to a South Korean boxing figure is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- 1934 births
- Sportspeople from Seoul
- Olympic boxers of South Korea
- Olympic silver medalists for South Korea
- Boxers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Boxers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Living people
- Olympic medalists in boxing
- Asian Games medalists in boxing
- Boxers at the 1958 Asian Games
- South Korean male boxers
- Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Asian Games bronze medalists for South Korea
- South Korean Olympic medalist stubs
- South Korean boxing biography stubs
- Medalists at the 1958 Asian Games