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- This is a Korean name; the family name is Shin.
Shin Joon-Sup (born June 17, 1963) was a South Korean boxer. Shin won the gold medal for South Korea in the middleweight division at the 3rd World Cup in Rome, Italy in 1983. Next year, he won the Olympic gold medal, beating Virgil Hill in the final at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
He didn't turn professional, and retired after winning the gold medal at the 1986 Asian Games.
[edit] Olympic Results
- Defeated Patrick Lihanda (Uganda) 5-0
- Defeated Rick Duff (Canada) 4-1
- Defeated Jerry Okorodudu (Nigeria) 4-1
- Defeated Aristides González (Puerto Rico) 4-1
- Defeated Virgil Hill (United States) 3-2
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