Ri Kyong-sok (born 14 August 1981) is a

North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu River, Y ...

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 lift ...

. He competed at the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

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Living people North Korean male weightlifters Olympic weightlifters of North Korea Weightlifters at the 2008 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 2006 Asian Games 1981 births Asian Games competitors for North Korea 21st-century North Korean people {{NorthKorea-weightlifting-bio-stub