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| Nationality | North Korean | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 April 1993 | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | Marathon | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 5000m: 14:26.5 (Pyongyang, 2018) Marathon: 2:11:19 (Pyongyang, 2019) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Ri Kang-bom (born 25 April 1993) is a North Korean marathon runner. He was a silver medalist at the 2019 Asian Marathon Championships. [1]
Ri went into the Hong Kong Marathon in February 2012 with a personal best of 2:25:20 for the marathon. [2]
He ran 2:23:42 to earn sixth place in the men's marathon at the Asian Games in Jakarta–Palembang in 2018. [3] He won the Pyongyang Marathon in April 2018 with a time of 2:12:53. [4] [5]
In 2019, he set a personal best time of 2:11:19 in winning the Pyongyang Marathon. [6] In the December of that year, he finished as runner-up at the Asian Marathon Championships held in Dongguan, China. [7] He was leading the race into the closing stages but mistakenly followed a television vehicle off course and away from the route, which enabled Japanese runner Daichi Kamino to overtake him for the win with Ri finishing second in a time of 2:12:21. [8] [9]
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