Skylar Park
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Nationality | Canadian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Winnipeg, Manitoba | 6 June 1999||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 57 kg (126 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Taekwondo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | –57 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | TRP Academy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Team | CAN | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Jae Park (dad) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Updated on 20 May 2019. |
Skylar M.-Y. Park (born 6 June 1999) is a Canadian taekwondo athlete.[1][2] She won the gold medal at the 2018 Pan American Taekwondo Championships on the women's 57 kg weight category.[3] She represented Canada at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the women's 57 kg weight category.[4][5][6] Her father is Korean and her mother is Italian with Chilean heritage.[7]
Career[]
In 2016, World Taekwondo released an article about her, after her performance on home soil winning the gold medal at the 2016 World Taekwondo Junior Championships in Burnaby, Canada, naming her a "Star of Tomorrow".[8]
References[]
- ^ "TaekwondoData". TaekwondoData. Retrieved 2018-09-21.
- ^ "Taekwondo Canada | Athletes | Skylar Park". taekwondo-canada.com. Retrieved 2018-09-21.
- ^ "Campeonato Panamericano de Taekwondo (G4) y Open 2018 (G1)". mastkd.com. Retrieved 2018-09-21.
- ^ Palmer, Dan (4 January 2020). "Taekwondo Canada President congratulates Park on Olympic qualification". Insidethegames.biz. Dunsar Media. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
- ^ Gibson, Shane (14 January 2020). "Winnipeg taekwondo champ Skylar Park is heading to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics". Global News. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
- ^ Berkeley, Geoff (3 July 2021). "Canada sending two taekwondo players to Tokyo 2020 Olympics as Yong receives reallocated place". Inside the Games. Dunsar Media. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
- ^ Gheciu, Alex (2021-06-23). "Meet Skylar Park, Canada's Badass Olympic Taekwondo Star". World Taekwondo. Retrieved 2021-06-23.
- ^ Dept, WT Communications (2016-11-21). "Stars of Tomorrow: Canada's Skylar Park - World Taekwondo". World Taekwondo. Retrieved 2018-09-21.
External links[]
- Skylar Park at TaekwondoData.com
- Skylar Park at the Canadian Olympic Committee
- Skylar Park at Olympedia
Categories:
- 1999 births
- Living people
- Canadian female taekwondo practitioners
- Canadian people of Chilean descent
- Canadian people of Italian descent
- Canadian people of South Korean descent
- Canadian sportspeople of Korean descent
- Sportspeople from Winnipeg
- World Taekwondo Championships medalists
- Pan American Games medalists in taekwondo
- Pan American Games silver medalists for Canada
- Taekwondo practitioners at the 2019 Pan American Games
- Pan American Taekwondo Championships medalists
- Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games
- Taekwondo practitioners at the 2020 Summer Olympics