| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 16 January 1992 |
| Sport | |
| Country |  South Korea |
| Sport | Track and field |
| Event | long-distance running |
| Updated on 29 August 2015. | |
| Yu Seung-yeop | |
| Hangul | 유승엽 [1] |
|---|---|
| Revised Romanization | Yu Seung-yeop |
| McCune–Reischauer | Yu Sŭng'yŏp |
Yu Seung-yeop (born 16 January 1992) is a male South Korean long-distance runner. He competed in the marathon event at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing,China. [2]
Sohn Kee-chung 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 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.
Shon Seung-mo is a badminton player from South Korea. In 2004,he won the silver medal at the Athens Summer Olympics.
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.
The Samsung Lions are a South Korean professional baseball team founded in 1982. They are based in the southeastern city of Daegu and are members of the KBO League. Their home stadium is Daegu Samsung Lions Park. They have won the Korean Championship eight times,and also finished as runners-up on ten occasions. The Samsung Lions are the first team to win four consecutive Korean Series titles (2011–2014),and are also the first team to win the regular season league title for five consecutive years (2011–2015).
Ryu Seung-min is a South Korean table tennis player who won the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the men's singles competition. His opponent was Wang Hao,a top-seeded player from the Chinese national team. Along the way,he defeated 1992 Olympic champion Jan-Ove Waldner with 4–1. At the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics he was part of the South Korean team that won the bronze and silver medals respectively. Ryu is ranked twenty-fifth in the world as of July 2013. In 2016,Ryu became a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC),he was a member and Chair of the Athletes' Commission of the South Korean National Olympic Committee from 2016 to 2019. Since 2018,he counts among the ITTF Foundation Ambassadors,promoting sport for development and peace.
Lee Seung-yuop is a retired baseball player and the current manager of the Doosan Bears. He spent most of his career with the Samsung Lions of the KBO League. At the age of 26,he became the youngest professional baseball player in the world to hit 300 career home runs. He formerly held the Asian home run record of 56 homers in a season,established in 2003 while playing for Samsung in the KBO. Lee holds the KBO records for career home runs,runs scored,RBIs,total bases,and slugging percentage. Combined,across the KBO and NPB,Lee has also recorded more hits than any other native-born South Korean player.
The men's marathon at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul,South Korea was held on Sunday October 2,1988. The race started at 14:30h local time. A total of 98 athletes completed the race,with Polin Belisle from Belize finishing in last position in 3'14:02. There were 118 competitors from 60 countries. Twenty of them did not finish. The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The event was won by Gelindo Bordin of Italy,the nation's first victory in the Olympic men's marathon and first medal in the event since 1924. Kenya and Djibouti each won their first Olympic men's marathon medal.
Cho Seung-woo is a South Korean actor and singer. He is best known for his leading roles in the films The Classic (2003),Marathon (2005),Tazza:The High Rollers (2006),and Inside Men (2015),as well as in the stage musicals Jekyll &Hyde,Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Man of La Mancha. He is also known for his leading roles in television dramas The King's Doctor (2012),God's Gift:14 Days (2014),Stranger (2017–2020),Life (2018),Sisyphus:The Myth (2021) and Divorce Attorney Shin (2023).
Jeong Keun-woo is a second baseman and shortstop who currently plays for the LG Twins in the Korea Baseball Organization. He bats and throws right-handed.
Jong Song-ok is a female long-distance runner and politician from North Korea,who won the world title in the women's marathon at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics in Seville,Spain. To date,it is the only medal ever won by a North Korean athlete at the World Championships.
The 2011 World Marathon Cup was the 14th edition of the World Marathon Cup of athletics and were held in Daegu,South Korea,inside of the 2011 World Championships.
Shin Dong-yup is a South Korean comedian and television comedy show host. He graduated from the Seoul Institute of the Arts. He became popular after appearing in SBS's variety program Happy Saturday and MBC's sitcom Guys n Girls.
Han Seung-Yeop is a South Korean footballer who plays as a striker for K League Challenge Daejeon Citizen.
The Asian Marathon Championships is a biennial international competition in marathon road running for Asian athletes. Organised by the Asian Athletics Association,its creation in 1988 followed decision to drop the 42.195-kilometre race from the programme of events at the Asian Athletics Championships. In that competition,championship marathons were held for men in 1973 and 1975,then finally for both men and women at the 1985.
Kim Hye-gyong is a North Korean long-distance runner.
Noh Si-hwan is a male South Korean long-distance runner. He competed in the marathon event at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing,China.
Yeum Go-eun is a female South Korean long-distance runner. She competed in the marathon event at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing,China.
Kim Ho-jung is a South Korean actress. Kim's portrayal as an ailing wife in Im Kwon-taek's film Revivre (2015),who is dying of cancer,won her the Best Supporting Actress at the 51st Baeksang Arts Awards.
Duel:Final Round (Korean: 대결) is a 2016 South Korean action comedy film starring Lee Joo-seung,Oh Ji-ho,Lee Jung-jin and Shin Jung-geun,and directed by Shin Jai-ho.
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