Hwang Ok-sil

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Hwang Ok-sil Short track
nation Korea NorthNorth Korea North Korea
birthday March 25, 1972
place of birth PyongyangNorth KoreaKorea NorthNorth Korea 
size 157 cm
Weight 55 kg
Career
status resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
bronze 1992 Albertville 500 m
 

Hwang Ok-sil ( kor. 황옥 실 ; born March 25, 1972 in Pyongyang ) is a North Korean short tracker .

Hwang won the bronze medal over 500 m at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville . This was the second medal that North Korea could ever win at the Winter Olympics after Han Pil-hwa won silver in speed skating in Innsbruck in 1964 . In 1998 she took part again in the Olympic Games, but was only 22nd over 500 m and 7th with the season.

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