Sohn Kee-chung was a Korean-Japanese 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 Olympics. He was born in the Korean Peninsula,but he competed as a member of the Japanese delegation because Korea was under Japanese rule at the time. Sohn set an Olympic record of 2 hours 29 minutes 19.2 seconds.
Brazil competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens,Greece,from 13 to 29 August 2004. This was the nation's nineteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics,excluding the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. The Brazilian Olympic Committee sent the nation's largest ever delegation in history to the Games. A total of 243 athletes,124 men and 119 women,competed in 24 sports.
South Korea competed as Korea at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona,Spain. 226 competitors,154 men and 72 women,took part in 134 events in 24 sports.
Djibouti took part in the 1988 Summer Olympics which were held in Seoul,South Korea from September 17 to October 2. The country's participation marked its second appearance in the Summer Olympics since its debut at the 1984 Summer games in Los Angeles,United States. The delegation from Djibouti included six athletes,five in athletics and one in sailing. The five athletes for athletics were Hoche Yaya Aden,Ismael Hassan,Talal Omar Abdillahi,Hussein Ahmed Salah,and Omar Moussa while Robleh Ali Adou represented the nation in sailing. Ahmed Salah won the nation's first Olympic medal,which is a bronze at the Men's Marathon event.
Malawi sent a delegation to compete at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta,United States from 19 July to 4 August 1996. This was the African nation's fifth appearance at a Summer Olympic Games. The Malawian delegation consisted of two competitors in the sport of athletics;Henry Moyo failed to advance past the first round heats of the 5,000 meters,and John Mwathiwa finished 65th in the marathon.
Historically,North Korea's participation in international sporting events has been hindered by the relations with South Korea. Until the 1990s,North Korea used to host up to 14 international events every year,albeit in small scale. Since the early 1990s,the amount was reduced to just one,the Paektusan Prize International Figure Skating Festival. More recently,since the 2000s,North Korea both participates in and hosts more international competitions.
Lee Bong-Ju is a South Korean marathoner.
Park Tae-hwan is a South Korean competitive swimmer who is an Olympic gold medalist and world champion. He has four Olympic medals,five world titles,and 20 Asian Games medals. He won a gold medal in the 400-meter freestyle and a silver in the 200-meter freestyle events at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He also won two silver medals at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the 200- and 400-meter freestyle. He is the first Asian swimmer to claim a gold medal in the men's 400-meter freestyle,and the first-ever South Korean swimmer to win any Olympic medal in swimming. He also holds 3 Asian Records,all in Men's Freestyle. He is best known for his impressive range and versatility,as he is able to compete at international level in 100-,200-,400- and 1,500-meter freestyle.
Jang Mi-ran is a South Korean Olympic weightlifter. She is currently based in Goyang,Gyeonggi Province,competing for the Goyang City Government Sports Club.
The Pakistan Olympic Association was created in 1948,while the Pakistan Sports Board was established in 1962.
Djibouti first participated at the Olympic Games in 1984,and have competed in every Summer Olympic Games,apart from the 2004 edition,since then. They have never competed in the Winter Olympic Games.
The men's marathon event at the 2000 Summer Olympics took place on 1 October 2000 in Sydney,Australia. One hundred athletes from 65 nations competed. The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The event was won by Gezahegne Abera of Ethiopia,the nation's first victory in the event since winning three in a row from 1960 to 1968. Ethiopia's fourth gold medal in the men's marathon moved it out of a tie with France and the United States into sole possession of the most men's marathon gold medals. Ethiopia also became the first nation to have two medalists in the men's marathon in the same Games since South Africa did it in 1912,as Tesfaye Tola took bronze. Kenya won its third men's marathon medal in four Games with Erick Wainaina's silver. This made Wainaina the sixth man to earn two medals in the event,after his bronze in 1996.
Bruce Emery Bickford is a retired long-distance runner from the United States. He claimed the gold medal at the 1987 Pan American Games in the Men's 10,000 metres,and represented his native country in the 1988 Summer Olympics. He set his personal best (27:37.17) in the 10,000 metres in 1985 in Stockholm,Sweden. Bickford won a gold medal in the 1989 United States Olympic Festival Half Marathon.
South Korea competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London,from July 27 to August 12,2012. This was the nation's sixteenth appearance at the Olympics,having missed the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow because of its support for the United States boycott. The Korean Olympic Committee sent the nation's smallest delegation to the Games since 1992. A total of 248 athletes,135 men and 113 women,competed in 22 sports.
Marcel Eric Hug is a Paralympic athlete from Switzerland competing in category T54 wheelchair racing events. Hug,nicknamed 'The Silver Bullet',has competed in four Summer Paralympic Games for Switzerland,winning two bronze medals in his first Games in Athens in 2004. In 2010 he set four world records in four days,and at the 2011 World Championships he won a gold in the 10,000 metres and four silver medals,losing the gold in three events to long term rival David Weir. This rivalry continued into the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London,where Hug won two silvers,in the 800m and the marathon. In the 2013 World Championships Hug dominated the field,winning five golds and a silver. During the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio,Hug was one of the most consistent competitors in the T54 class,winning two golds,in the 800m and marathon,and two silvers medals,in the 1500m and 5000m.
In India,the Athletics was introduced during the period of the British Raj. The sport is governed by the Athletics Federation of India,which was formed in 1946.
Kim Woo-jin is a South Korean archer specializing in recurve archery. He first held the world number one ranking in 2011. At the 2016 Summer Olympics,he set a world record in men's individual recurve archery as well as won the gold medal as a member of the South Korean men's archery team. During the 2024 Summer Olympics,he earned an Olympic gold medal in the men's individual event after a tiebreaker with American archer Brady Ellison. This victory marked Kim's fifth gold medal overall and his third consecutive Olympics in which he won a gold medal. He is a three-time world champion in the men's individual recurve event at the World Archery Championships.
The marathon at the Summer Olympics is the only road running event held at the multi-sport event. The men's marathon has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since the first modern Olympics in 1896. Nearly ninety years later,the women's event was added to the programme at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.
Jang Yong-ho is a South Korean archer.
The Order of Sport Merit is one of the Republic of Korea's Orders of Merit. It is awarded to those who have rendered outstanding meritorious services in the interest of improving citizen's physique and national status through sports.
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