Ri Ho-jun
Ri Ho-jun | |||||||
nation | North Korea | ||||||
birthday | December 1, 1946 | ||||||
place of birth | North Korea | ||||||
size | 176 cm | ||||||
Weight | 75 kg | ||||||
job | soldier | ||||||
Career | |||||||
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discipline | Sport shooting | ||||||
status | not active | ||||||
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Korean spelling | |
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Chosŏn'gŭl | 리 호준 |
Revised Romanization |
I Hojun |
McCune- Reischauer |
Ri Hojun |
Ri Ho-jun ( kor. 리 호준) or Li Ho-Jun , (born December 1, 1946 ) is a North Korean soldier in the Korean People's Army and marksman . He won the first ever Olympic gold medal for his country at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich .
Life
Ri Ho-jun was born in 1946 in what is now North Korea, his place of birth is unknown. He served in the Korean People's Army and began his sports career as a marksman.
In 1972, North Korea sent a delegation to the Summer Games for the first time. In the small-bore shooting discipline (50 m , prone), he set a new world record with 599 rings . He later took part in the 1976 Summer Olympics ( Montreal ) and the 1980 Summer Olympics ( Moscow ), but never won a medal.
Remarks
After winning the gold medal, he stated that when aiming at the targets , he was thinking of adversaries of the class enemy ( South Korea ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Li Ho-Jun Bio, Stats, and Results. In: Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved December 23, 2016 .
- ↑ North Korea: Gold and love for the great leader Kim - WORLD. In: THE WORLD. Retrieved December 23, 2016 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Ri, Ho-jun |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Li, Ho-Jun |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | North Korean marksman |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 1, 1946 |