Ri Myong-sun (; born 26 January 1992) is a North Korean
table tennis
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...
player. She competed for North Korea at the
2012 Summer Olympics
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 ...
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Ri Myong-sun
London 2012 She went on to compete for North Korea again at the 2016 Summer Olympics
The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...
, where she beat Petrissa Solja of Germany in the third round of the women's singles.
References
Sportspeople from Pyongyang
North Korean female table tennis players
Table tennis players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Table tennis players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic table tennis players of North Korea
1992 births
Living people
Asian Games medalists in table tennis
Table tennis players at the 2014 Asian Games
Asian Games bronze medalists for North Korea
Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games
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