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  2. North Korea at the Olympics - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. List of Olympic medalists in athletics (women) - Wikipedia

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    Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds and also received medals. nb Note: Marion Jones was stripped of all her Olympic medals. In 2008 the Russian team of Evgeniya Polyakova, Aleksandra Fedoriva, Yulia Gushchina, and Yuliya Chermoshanskaya were initially awarded the gold medals. However, the medals were rescinded in 2016 ...

  4. List of medal sweeps in Olympic athletics - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. List of North Korean records in athletics - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. North Korea wins first diving medal ever, as China continues ...

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    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 ...

  7. Women's 100 metres world record progression - Wikipedia

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    Wyomia Tyus's 1968 Olympic gold medal performance and Renate Stecher's 1972 Olympic championship win, both in 11.07, were the fastest recorded fully electronic 100-metre races to that time and were ratified as world records. However, Tyus's 11.07 was later adjusted to 11.08. [1]

  8. 100 metres at the Olympics - Wikipedia

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    Soviet and German women returned to the podium in the period from 1972 to 1980, but since then African-American and Jamaican women have won the great majority of 100 m medals. [84] Dominance in the men's event has been particularly pronounced from 1984 to 2016, during which time in a span of almost 40 years all the men's Olympic 100 m finalists ...

  9. North Korea at the 1972 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia

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    North Korea competed as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. It was the first time that the nation had competed at the Summer Olympic Games. 37 competitors, 23 men and 14 women, took part in 23 events in 10 sports. [1] North Korea won the first Olympic gold medal from either Korea.