Kim Un-guk (; ; born 28 October 1988) is a North Korean

weightlifter Olympic weightlifting, or Olympic-style weightlifting (officially named Weightlifting), is a sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with each athlete trying to successfully lif ...

, Olympic Champion, and two time World Champion. He is also a Labor Hero and People's Athlete.

Career

At the

Olympic Games 2012 The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

he competed in the Men's 62-kg division, in the snatch portion of the competition he set an Olympic Record and matched the current

world record A world record is usually the best global and most important performance that is ever recorded and officially verified in a specific skill, sport, or other kind of activity. The book ''Guinness World Records'' and other world records organization ...

of 153 kg. In the clean & jerk portion, his final attempt of 174 kg set a new world record total of 327 kg. At the 2015 World Weightlifting Championships he failed a doping test and had his results disqualified. He was the original silver medalist. Kim is an athlete at the

April 25 Sports Club April 25 Sports Club (, ''Sa i o ch'eyuktan''), or 4.25 SC for short, or sometimes April 25 National Defence Sports Club (4.25'국방체육단', ''Sa i o ch'eyuktan "Kukpang ch'eyuktan"''), is a multi-sports club based in P'yŏngyang, North Ko ...

Major results

References

External links

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* 1988 births Living people North Korean male weightlifters Olympic weightlifters of North Korea Weightlifters at the 2012 Summer Olympics World record holders in Olympic weightlifting Olympic gold medalists for North Korea Asian Games medalists in weightlifting Sportspeople from Pyongyang Olympic medalists in weightlifting Weightlifters at the 2010 Asian Games Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 2014 Asian Games World Weightlifting Championships medalists People's Athletes Asian Games gold medalists for North Korea Asian Games silver medalists for North Korea Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games 20th-century North Korean people 21st-century North Korean people {{NorthKorea-weightlifting-bio-stub