Park Min-soo is an elite South Korean artistic gymnast. He had been a participant at the 2015 Glasgow World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and had qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. As a part of his country’s senior and elite artistic gymnastics team, Park won the Silver medal at the 2014 Incheon Asian Games and the Bronze medal at the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games.
Born Name
Park Min-soo
Nick Name
Minsu
Park Min-soo in an Instagram selfie as seen in April 2019 (Park Min-soo / Instagram)
Sun Sign
Scorpio
Born Place
Seoul, South Korea
Residence
Seoul, South Korea
Nationality
Education
Park completed his primary and secondary education from schools in the Ilsan district, near Seoul. He then graduated with a degree in sport studies from Hanyang University in Seoul.
Park Min-soo as seen in October 2017 (Park Min-soo / Instagram)
Race / Ethnicity
Asian
He is of Korean descent.
Hair Color
Black
Eye Color
Dark Brown
Sexual Orientation
Straight
Park Min-soo in a selfie in June 2019 (Park Min-soo / Instagram)
Distinctive Features
Muscular frame
Side-cropped hair
Clean-shaven look
Boyish face
Park Min-soo Favorite Things
Martial Art– Taekkyeon
Source – Gymnastics.sport
Park Min-soo in an Instagram post in May 2019 (Park Min-soo / Instagram)
Park Min-soo Facts
He is a part of the sports club at the Hanyang University in Seoul and has been coached by Yoon Chang-soon at the university level.
He is also a member of the Jellabuk-do Government sports club in South Korea and has been coached by Shin Hyung-wook at the national level.
Park began his gymnastics training in 5th grade at the age of 11. He was originally interested in traditional Korean Martial art, Taekkyeon. However, his childhood coach was trained in gymnastics and acrobatics and encouraged Park to follow the suit.
In 2012, at the age of 18, he was beset by a series of back injuries that threatened to derail his career but Park bounced back spectacularly in due course of time. The same year, proving his resilience, he participated at the 93rd National Games of Korea, held in Daegu. He competed in the High School Men’s all-around gymnastics event and achieved 3rd place in a competition that was being contested by some of the country’s top gymnasts, including those who had recently featured at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
In 2015, he clinched the silver medal in the artistic gymnastics team event at the World University Games in Gwangju and the feat pushed him into the reckoning for national senior team selection. The same year, he was honored with an ‘Excellence Award’ by the Korean Gymnastics Association.
Park had participated at the prestigious American Cup in 2016, then known as the AT&T American Cup. He was not part of the original roster of participants but got a chance due to an injury to his compatriot Lee Junho.
He had participated in the 2016 summer Olympics at 9 individual and team events that included vault, floor exercise, parallel bars, horizontal bars, pommel horse, and rings. As of October 2019, he harbors strong ambitions of competing at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games as well.
