Ham bong-sil

Ham Bong-sil (born July 24, 1974 ) is a North Korean long-distance runner .

In the marathon of the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney she was eighth in 2:27:07 h, in 2004 in Athens she finished the race after 20 km.

In 2001 she won the half marathon of the Universiade in Beijing in 1:15:24, and the following year she won the Asian Games marathon in Busan and was Asian champion in the 5000 and 10,000 m . Since 2002 she has held the current national record in the 5,000-meter run . In 2002, 2003 and 2005 she won the Pyongyang Marathon , and in 2004 she was third in the Xiamen Marathon .

At the marathon of the World Athletics Championships in 2003 in Paris / Saint-Denis, she finished fifth with the current North Korean record of 2:25:31. Her last international appearance was at the 2005 Asian Championships, where she won the bronze medal in the 10,000 m.

Best times

• 5000 m: 15: 37.5 min, April 30, 2002, Pyongyang
• 10,000 m : 34: 35.30 min, September 1, 2005, Incheon
• Marathon: 2:25:31 h, August 31, 2003, Paris / Saint-Denis

Web links

• Ham Bong-sil in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait on marathoninfo.free.fr

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Ham is the family name here, Bong-sil is the first name.