Kim Hyok-bong (born 28 October 1985) is a retired 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 representing the

April 25 Sports Team 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 Sports club, multi-sports club based in Pyongyang ...

. He competed at the

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and 2012 Summer Olympics.Kim Hyok-bong
London 2012 At the 2012 Summer Olympics he reached the fourth round, knocking out seeded

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and sharing a land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its eas ...

Joo Se-hyuk Joo Sae-hyuk (, ; born 20 January 1980) is a South Korean table tennis player. As a singles player, he was a silver medalist at the 2003 World Table Tennis Championships, a bronze medalist at the 2011 Table Tennis World Cup, and a bronze medali ...

in the third round. He won gold medals in mixed doubles events with Kim Jong at the 2013 World Championships and the 2014 Asian Games. The World Championship gold was the first for DPR Korea since 1977.

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* 1985 births Living people North Korean male table tennis players Table tennis players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Table tennis players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic table tennis players for North Korea Asian Games medalists in table tennis Table tennis players at the 2010 Asian Games Table tennis players at the 2014 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for North Korea Asian Games bronze medalists for North Korea Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games World Table Tennis Championships medalists 21st-century North Korean people {{NorthKorea-tabletennis-bio-stub