1964 Winter Olympics / Participant (North Korea)

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North Korea participated in the IX. 1964 Olympic Winter Games in Austrian Innsbruck with a delegation of 13 athletes in two disciplines in part, including six men and seven women. It was North Korea's first participation in the Winter Olympics. Han Pil-hwa won the only medal for North Korea in the women's speed skating over 3000 meters with silver at these games, and in the medal table the country finally placed 13th.

Participants by sport

Speed ​​skating

Men

• Kim Zin-hook

  500 m: 19th place (41.9 s)

  1500 m: 36th place (2: 19.4 min)

• Ri Sung-ryool

  500 m: 30th place (43.0 s)

  1500 m: 14th place (2: 13.9 min)

• Bak Sung-wun

  5000 m: 28th place (8: 20.2 min)

• Kim Choon-bong

  5000 m: 30th place (8: 22.9 min)

  10,000 m: 23rd place (17: 10.8 min)

Women

• Han Pil-hwa

  500 m: 28th place (58.5 s)

  1500 m: 9th place (2: 30.1 min)

  3000 m: silver (5: 18.5 min)

• Ryoo Choon-za

  500 m: 15th place (48.4 s)

  1000 m: 16th place (1: 40.0 min)

• To Sen-za

  1500 m: 30th place (2: 44.7 min)

• Kim Song-soon

  1500 m: 4th place (2: 27.7 min)

  3000 m: 7th place (5: 25.9 min)

• Bak Wol-yes

  3000 m: 13th place (5: 30.8 min)

Cross-country skiing

Men

• Kim Ko-am

  30 km: 65th place (1: 55: 11.0 h)

• Yang Duk-soon

  30 km: 63rd place (1: 53: 58.4 h)

Women

• Kim Bong-za

  10 km: 32nd place (52: 18.6 min)

• Ri Han-soon

  10 km: 33rd place (53: 21.8 min)

Web links

• North Korea at the 1964 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )