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Although the International Gymnastics Federation punished the North Korean gymnastics federation by barring their women's team from competing at the 1993 World Championships, they did allow Kim to keep her medal. [2] North Korea faced further age-falsification controversy when it was discovered that 2007 World silver medalist Hong Su-jong had ...
This was the first Olympic medal for a North Korean woman in Olympic gymnastics. [2] Hong won the gold medal in vault at the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan (tied with Russian gymnast Ksenia Afanasyeva) and is the bronze medalist on vault at the 2013 World Championships. The following year she won the vault final at the World Championships.
North Korea's attendance at the Winter Games has been sporadic; eight of the last thirteen Games have included a North Korean team. During the 1998-2007 Sunshine Policy era, North Korea and South Korea symbolically marched as one team at the opening ceremonies of the 2000, [ 2 ] 2004, and 2006 Olympics, but competed separately.
Ri was the first North Korean ever to win a gold medal on vault at the Asian Games, where he performed solidly at the 2006 Asian Games and was the first one for North Korea on that apparatus. [1] He later went on to win a bronze medal on vault at the 2007 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.
Half of North Korea's medal haul was distributed to the weightlifters, while the rest to the competitors in artistic gymnastics, shooting, and table tennis. Among the medalists were Rim Jong-sim, who repeated her golden feat from London four years earlier in a heavier category, and double world champion Ri Se-gwang , who obtained the nation's ...
For the first time since its Olympic return in 1992, North Korea did not qualify athletes in gymnastics. North Korea left London with a total of 7 medals (4 gold and 3 bronze), beating its record from the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Along with the 1992 Summer Olympics, this was also the nation's most successful Olympics for the number of ...
Note: The International Gymnastics Federation recommended to the IOC that the medals of the Chinese team be stripped, and awarded to the fourth-placed United States team, as it was revealed that Dong Fangxiao was underage (14, with age limit >16) at the time. The IOC upheld the FIG decision in April 2010.
This is a list of medalists at the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships. [1] [2] ... North Korea: 1985: Valladolid, Spain: Bulgaria: ... 22 medals (3 gold, 13 ...