Eye-opening achievements in 2025 to be specially recorded in history of development of Juche-oriented physical culture and sports
Date: 28/01/2026 | Source: Sports DPRK (En) | Read original version at source
With the determination to liveup to the expectations of the country and people with gold medals, the DPRK’sreliable sportspersons won over 20 cups and more than 270 medals including over150 gold medals and set over a dozen new world records in international gamesheld in 2025.
The women footballers createdanother legend of the DPRK women’s football.
The DPRK team won the firstplace in the 2025 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup again after last year, thus beingin the limelight of the world as the only team which won victory twice insuccession in the history of the tournament and as the strongest one which wasthe first to lift the World Cup four times.
DPRK weightlifters alsocreated world-startling miracles, shaking the world weightlifting circle.
They fully displayed themettle of the Korean people to the world with their brilliant successes in the2025 IWF world junior and youth championships and the 2025 Asian WeightliftingChampionships.
In particular, the DPRKweightlifters, who took part in the 2025 IWF World Weightlifting Championships,won 23 medals—17 gold medals, five silver medals and one bronze medal—and set10 new world records, thus demonstrating the dignity and might of the country.At the championships, the men’s and women’s weightlifting teams of the countrytopped the country and regional medal tally, and the women weightlifters alsotopped the country world record tally by setting nine out of 12 new worldrecords and the country and regional medal tally of the championships again.
Six DPRK weightlifters tookpart in the Qatar International Weightlifting Cup 2025 to bag 18 gold medals,shaking the world weightlifting circle again.
In addition, other players ofthe country brought honour to it as winners in various championships.
Wrestlers, who took part inthe 2025 World Wrestling Championship, won three gold medals, two silver medalsand two bronze medals, seven medals in all, and won the women’s team cup(second place).
Swimmers of the country alsomade remarkable successes at the 2025 world underwater sports championships.
Its Taekwon-Do playerspowerfully demonstrated the dignity and might of their country as the homelandof Taekwon-Do.
They won 74 medals, including46 gold medals, and the championship trophy to top the total country rankingsat the 23rd Taekwon-Do World Championships which brought together more than 1180 men and women players from over 70 countries and regions.
Other martial arts players,who took part in the second Asian karate cup and championships, also won eightgolds, one silver and one bronze.
The brilliant feats performedby the DPRK sportspersons in this significant year will write a new page in thehistory of the development of the Juche-oriented physical culture and sports,giving great encouragement to all the people of the country who are out in thestruggle to greet the Ninth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea as aglorious one of victors.
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