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DPRK players notch up stunning successes at international games in 2024

Date: 29/04/2025 | Source: Sports DPRK (En) | Read original version at source

Last year, sportspersons of the DPRK won more than 20 cups and over 360 medals, including more than 210 golds, at international games and updated more than 40 DPRK records at the domestic games.

Women footballers won the 2024 AFC U-20 and U-17 women’s Asian Cups and the 2024 FIFA U-20 and U-17 women’s World Cups in succession and performed a world sports miracle of lifting four cups in one year.

Male footballers acquired qualifications for the 2025 AFC U-20 and U-17 Asian Cups.

DPRK weightlifters won victories at the international games in succession, shaking the world weightlifting circle.

They won 116 medals, including 79 golds, at the 2024 IWF World Championships, the World Cup and the 2024 Asian Weightlifting Championships.

Today, the DPRK women weightlifters hold 14 world records of the IWF, topping the country and regional rankings of world record holders. And its male weightlifters hold three world records.

Kim Kum Yong took the first place by defeating the world’s aces at the 2024 Asian Table Tennis Championships and she and Ri Jong Sik came second in the mixed doubles of the table tennis event at the 33rd Olympic Games, to the surprise of many experts and amateurs.

DPRK wrestlers also demonstrated their great abilities at different international games.

Kim Ji Hyang and Ro Yu Chol bagged gold medals at the 2024 Asian Wrestling Championship and seven DPRK wrestlers, including Han Chong Song and Son Il Sim, took first place in the 37th ICSM World Military Wrestling Championship.

DPRK players emerged victorious at the FIG Artistic Gymnastics Apparatus World Cup 2024 held in Egypt, the EJU Gyor European Open 2024 and other international games and registered good results in the women’s wrestling and women's 10m platform synchronized diving at the 33rd Olympic Games.

Men and women Taekwon-Do players, who trained hard out of the desire to further develop the orthodox martial art of the Korean nation, exalted the honour of the country at every international contest.

At the 10th Asian Taekwon-Do Championship they displayed dogged fighting spirit, perseverance and high techniques to obtain 15 cups and more than 100 medals including 76 golds.

They won a cup, ten gold and nine other medals in the adult category of the World Cup Taekwon-Do Games-2024 of the 9th International Martial Arts Games held in Uzbekistan to shake the world Taekwon-Do circle once again.

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