Ri Gwang-sik (born March 5, 1970) 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 Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu (Amnok) and T ...

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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 ...

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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

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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 {{NorthKorea-Olympic-medalist-stub