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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 ...
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.
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.
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.
The first U.S. women's gymnastics team to win the Olympic team gold medal—including WWOS stars Shannon Miller, Dominique Moceanu and Dominique Dawes—star in the Tour of Olympic Gymnastics Champions. The show airs in prime time and leads into Monday Night Football
Olympic Committee of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea sent the nation's third largest delegation ever to the Games. A total of 51 athletes, 15 men and 36 women, competed in 10 sports. Women's football was the only team-based sport in which North Korea was represented at these Olympic games. There was only a single competitor in archery ...
SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — North Korea won the silver in the women’s synchronized 10-meter platform event to capture the nation's first ever Olympic diving medal, while China continued its ...
This is a list of medalists at the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships. [1] [2] ... North Korea Soviet Union — 1987: Varna, Bulgaria ... 22 medals (3 gold, 13 ...