Ri Yong-sam

Olympic medal record
Men's freestyle sport wrestling
Competitor for North Korea
	Atlanta 1996	Bantamweight

Ri Yong-sam
Chosŏn'gŭl	리영삼
Revised Romanization	I Yeong-sam
McCune–Reischauer	Ri Yŏng-sam

This is a Korean name; the family name is Ri.

Ri Yong-sam (born August 22, 1972) is a North Korean wrestler. At the 1996 Summer Olympics he won the bronze medal in the men's Freestyle Bantamweight (52–57 kg) category. He also competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics.^[1] He received a gold medal at the 1998 Asian Games.^[2]

References

↑ Olympic results
↑ "Successes of DPRK players". Korean Central News Agency (Pyongyang). 25 December 1998.

External links

Asian Games Wrestling Champions in Men's Freestyle Bantamweight

1954–1994: 57 kg 1998: 58 kg 2002–2010: 55 kg 2014–: 57 kg

1954: Minoru Iizuka (JPN) 1958: Minoru Iizuka (JPN) 1962: Tadashi Asai (JPN) 1966: Tadamichi Tanaka (JPN) 1970: Hideaki Yanagida (JPN) 1974: Mohsen Farahvashi (IRI) 1978: Hideaki Tomiyama (JPN) 1982: Hideaki Tomiyama (JPN) 1986: Askari Mohammadian (IRI) 1990: Kim Yong-sik (PRK) 1994: Tserenbaataryn Tsogtbayar (MGL) 1998: Ri Yong-sam (PRK) 2002: Dilshod Mansurov (UZB) 2006: Dilshod Mansurov (UZB) 2010: Dilshod Mansurov (UZB) 2014: Jong Hak-jin (PRK)

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