Kim Seong-jip
| Kim Seong-jip medal table |
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|---|---|---|
| South Korea | ||
| Olympic games | ||
| bronze | 1948 London | medium |
| bronze | 1952 Helsinki | medium |
| World Championship | ||
| bronze | 1947 Philadelphia | medium |
| Asian Games | ||
| gold | 1854 Manila | Slightly difficult |
Kim Sung-Jip ( January 13, 1919 - February 20, 2016 ) was a South Korean weightlifter . He won a bronze medal in the middleweight division at the 1948 Olympic Games and the 1952 Olympic Games .
Career
Kim Sung-Jip was the first Korean athlete to win a medal at the 1948 Olympic Games in London after Korea gained independence from Japan after 1945. After 1945, he and a few other sports colleagues only had a sparsely equipped training hall at the YMCA in Taenung , northeast of Seoul . It is all the more remarkable that he finished 3rd at the World Championships in Philadelphia in 1947 and thus won a bronze medal at the World Championships .
At the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952 , he repeated winning a bronze medal with third place in the middleweight division. The feats he and several other South Korean weightlifters made at these games are all the more remarkable given the fact that war was raging in his home country at the time (1950-1953).
In 1954 Kim Sung-Jip was winner in Manila at the II Asian Games in the light heavyweight division and in 1955 he also started at the World Championships in Munich , where he finished fifth in the middleweight division. He also took this place when he took part in his third Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956 .
After finishing his active career, Kim Sung-Jip was for many years an advisor to the South Korean Olympic Committee and a supervisor of the South Korean weightlifting team.
International success
| year | space | competition | Weight class | Results |
| 1947 | 3. | World Cup in Philadelphia | medium | with 352.5 kg, behind Stanley Stanczyk , USA , 405 kg and Frank Spellman , USA, 375 kg |
| 1948 | bronze | OS in London | medium | with 380 kg (122.5-112.5-145), behind Frank Spellman, 390 kg and Peter George , USA, 382.5 kg |
| 1952 | bronze | OS in Helsinki | medium | with 382.5 kg (122.5-112.5-147.5), behind Peter George, 400 kg and Gerard Gratton , Canada , 390 kg |
| 1954 | 1. | II. Asia Games in Manila | Slightly difficult | before Muhammad Iqbal Butt, Pakistan and Harold de Castro, Singapore |
| 1955 | 5. | World Cup in Munich | medium | with 367.5 kg, behind Peter George, 405 kg, Fjodor Bogdanowski , Soviet Union , 405 kg, Ingemar Franzen , Sweden , 372.5 kg and Krzysztof Beck , Poland , 372.5 kg |
| 1956 | 5. | OS in Melbourne | medium | with 380 kg (125-110-145), behind Fjodor Bogdanowski, 420 kg, Peter George, 412.5 kg, Ermanno Pignatti , Italy , 382.5 kg and Jan Bochenek , Poland, 382.5 kg |
- Explanations
- OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship
- All competitions in the Olympic three-way fight, consisting of two-armed pushing, two-armed tearing and two-arm pushing
- Middle weight, weight class up to 75 kg and light heavy weight up to 82.5 kg body weight
literature
- Professional magazine Athletik, especially the issues No. 15/16/1952, 21/22/1955 and 24/1956
Web links
- Kim Seong-jip in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Kim Sung-Jip at Top Olympic Lifters of the 20th Century
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kim, Seong-jip |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kim, Sung-Jip |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South Korean weightlifter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 13, 1919 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th February 2016 |