“A world gymnastic movement has come into being”, “very adventurous and stirring movement” and “alarmingly ingenious”...
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Ministry of Physical Culture and Sports of the DPRK
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World artistic gymnast Ri Se Gwang
Jong In Sun, wrestler of Amnokgang Sports Club
Jong In Sun, wrestler of the Amnokgang Sports Club, was awarded the title of Merited Athlete for exalting the dignity and honour of the country by achieving good results in different international competitions including a gold medal in the women’s 55kg division of the 2014 Asian wrestling championships.
Not content with the achievements, she intensified training for further improving her physical ability, thus recording good results in last year’s games.
In a sports competition held in April and the national championships last year she won gold medals by overpowering her opponents technically.
She was selected as one of the DPRK’s top ten players of 2022.
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Coach makes great contribution to developing marksmanship
Selected as one of the top ten coaches of the DPRK both in 2021 and 2022, Kim Chun Sam is a competent coach who has trained many winners of different running target shooting events as well as several national record holders for nearly 30 years.
He specifies definite goals to players and strictly reviews their shortcomings and takes necessary steps, and such guidance method is the fundamental key to enabling his trainees to win excellent marks in different games.
Thanks to his scientific guidance, player Kwon Kwang Il could break the world record in the men’s individual 10-metre running target mixed shooting event at the national championships last year.
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First world swimming champion in DPRK
Kim Kuk Hyang, who started her career as a diver at the April 25 Sports Club in 2011, won several domestic competitions thanks to her natural good flexibility and fast motor reaction and her special ability for entry catch.
During her international debut at the 16th FINA World Championships, she won the women’s individual 10m platform diving event by correctly and bravely performing movements of high degrees of difficulty.
Afterwards, she took four gold medals at the 29th Universiad and achieved good results in several international competitions including the FINA World Championships held in 2017 and the 18th Asian Games.
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Weightlifting coach Kye Song Il of April 25
Kye Song Il is a competent coach who has been selected as one of the top ten coaches of the DPRK several times in recognition of his efforts for training many accomplished players.
The success of Ri Song Gum who is cutting a brilliant figure on the national women’s weightlifting stage is unthinkable apart from Kye’s strenuous endeavours.
Kye applied new training equipment and methods to suit the physical condition and technical characteristics of Ri Song Gum who had just started out on her playing career and made exact demands on her. He also tried hard to make her correctly acquire technical movements involved in snatching and jerking.
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Top ten players of DPRK in 2022
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Top ten coaches of DPRK in 2022
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People’s Athlete Kim Hyok Bong
Kim Hyok Bong was crowned world champion in table tennis mixed doubles for the first time in the DPRK.
He began his playing career at the April 25 Sports Club in 1994 and was picked out by the national team in 2003.
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Key player in development of country’s table tennis
Kim Hui Jin picked out Pak Yong Sun and coached her to rise to the peak of the world table tennis. Pak shook the world table tennis circles in the 1970s and won the titles of Labour Hero and People’s Athlete.
Kim was active as a table tennis player at the Korean People’s Army Sports Club in the 1950s and began to work as a table tennis coach at the then February 8 Sports Club in 1960. He selected Pak Yong Sun, a schoolgirl in Sakju, and helped her win the 33rd World Table Tennis Championships.
Working as the women’s table tennis head coach of the national team and secretary general of the DPRK table tennis association, he led the Korean table tennis players to achieve remarkable successes in the Asian and world table tennis championships in the 1980s and 1990s. In recognition of his distinguished services, the state awarded him the titles of Merited Athlete and People’s Athlete in succession.
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Weightlifting champion Ri Song Hui
Ri Song Hui who cut a conspicuous figure in weightlifting in the 1990s won three Asian championships and two world championships, renewed world records six times and achieved good results in the Olympic Games during her playing career.
Born in Tongnim County, North Phyongan Province, Ri took up weightlifting in her teens and beat world records in two events and total in her national debut, attracting the attention of experts.
Later, she triumphed in the 58kg category of the 12th Asian women’s weightlifting championships, renewed the world record in the 58kg jerk at the 13th Asian Games in 1998 and broke the world record again in the same event and won the first place in total standings at the 13th world women’s weightlifting championships in November 1999.
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