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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.
Only Olympians with four or more medals in one event are included. If a person has contested for several nations, only the most recent nation is mentioned. In those instances where two or more athletes have the same number of total medals, the first tiebreaker is the number of gold medals, followed by the number of silver medals.
The distance of the marathon at the Olympics has varied in the early years, before being standardized at 42,195 m in 1924, the distance that was run at the 1908 Olympics. In other years, the distances have been: 1896: 40,000 m (approximately) 1900: 40,260 m (25.02 mi) 1904: 40,000 m (24.85 mi) 1912: 40,200 m (24.98 mi) 1920: 40,750 m (25.32 mi)
1964 was the first Olympiad to have no sweeps. Since then there were no sweeps in 1972, 1996 and 2000. Sweeps have happened in every long term event in the individual program, except the 5000 metres. It has happened eight times in the 200 metres and 110 metres hurdles, seven in the Shot Put. A steeplechase event has had a sweep five times, by ...
Pyongyang, North Korea [18] Long jump: 7.86 m Cha Gyong-Nam: 14 April 1983 Pyongyang, North Korea [19] Triple jump: 16.06 m Cha Gyong-Son: 26 October 1995 Pyongyang, North Korea [20] Shot put: 15.79 m Kim Hak-Chol: 24 April 1992 Pyongyang, North Korea [21] Discus throw: 55.18 m Kim Yong-Nam: 26 June 1994 Sariwon, North Korea [22] Hammer throw ...
This article lists all ties for medals at the Olympics. A tie occurs when two or more individual or teams achieve identical results in the Olympics . In these cases, there are multiple winners awarded the same medal.
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 ...
North Korea qualified five wrestlers into the Olympic competition. Four of them qualified for the games following the triumph of winning the semifinal round at the 2024 Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; meanwhile the other wrestler qualified through the 2024 World Qualification Tournament in Istanbul, Turkey.