Ham Kee-yong (14 November 1930 – 9 November 2022) was a South Korean
marathoner, best known as the winner of the 1950
Boston Marathon.
On 19 April 1950, he won the Boston Marathon with a record time of 2:32:39, under coach
Sohn Kee-chung
Sohn Kee-chung ( ko, 손기정, ; ; August 29, 1912 – November 15, 2002) was an Olympic athlete and long-distance runner. He became the first ethnic Korean to win a medal at the Olympic Games, winning gold in the marathon at the 1936 Berlin O ...
, the marathon winner at the
1936 Berlin Olympics
The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: ''Spiele der XI. Olympiade'') and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi-sp ...
. The second and third-place finishers that year, Song Gil-yun (송길윤, 宋吉允; 숭문중학) and Choe Yun-chil (최윤칠, 崔崙七; 연희대학) were also South Koreans. A South Korean male would not win the Boston Marathon again until 2001.
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The
Korean War
, date = {{Ubl, 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953 (''de facto'')({{Age in years, months, weeks and days, month1=6, day1=25, year1=1950, month2=7, day2=27, year2=1953), 25 June 1950 – present (''de jure'')({{Age in years, months, weeks a ...
broke out on 25 June 1950, so a planned victory celebration did not take place that year. On 18 April 2004, his feat was finally celebrated in his hometown, Chuncheon, with Ham in attendance.
Achievements
See also
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Suh Yun-bok, the winner of the 1947 Boston marathon
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Lee Bong-ju
Lee Bong-Ju (; born November 8, 1970, in Cheonan, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea) is a South Korean marathoner.
He graduated from University of Seoul then competed for South Korea in the 1996 Summer Olympics held in Atlanta, United States in t ...
, the winner of the 2001 Boston marathon
External links
Ham Kee-yongcongratulatory 2004 eventHistory of Korea's marathon
References
1930 births
2022 deaths
South Korean male marathon runners
South Korean businesspeople
Korea University alumni
Boston Marathon male winners
People from Chuncheon
20th-century South Korean people
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