Ri Gwang-sik (born March 5, 1970) is a
North Korea
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boxer Boxer most commonly refers to:
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who won a bronze medal in the men's bantamweight (54 kg) category at the
1992 Summer Olympics
The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as ...
in
Barcelona
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. He also captured a bronze medal at the
1991 World Amateur Boxing Championships
The Men's 1991 World Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Sydney, Australia, from November 15 to 23. The sixth edition of this competition, held nearly a year before the Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, was organised by the world's go ...
.
Olympic results
*Defeated
Laszlo Bognar (Hungary) TKO 3 (1:00)
*Defeated
Sergio Reyes Jr. (United States) 15-8
*Defeated
Serafim Todorov
Serafim Simeonov Todorov ( bg, Серафим Симеонов Тодоров; born 6 July 1969) is a former Bulgarian Olympic amateur boxer. He won three consecutive gold medals at both the World and European Championships, and silver at the 1 ...
(Bulgaria) 16-15
*Lost to
Wayne McCullough
Wayne Pocket Rocket McCullough (born Wayne William McCullough; 7 July 1970) is a former professional boxer from Northern Ireland who competed from 1993 to 2008. He held the WBC bantamweight title from 1995 to 1997, becoming the first boxer fr ...
(Ireland) 16-21
References
Profile
1970 births
Living people
Bantamweight boxers
Boxers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for North Korea
Olympic boxers for North Korea
Olympic medalists in boxing
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Boxers at the 1998 Asian Games
North Korean male boxers
AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists
Asian Games competitors for North Korea
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