Ri Ho-jun

In this Korean name, the family name is Ri.

Ri Ho-jun
Ri Ho-jun at the 1972 Olympics
Personal information
Born (1946-12-01) 1 December 1946
Height176 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight75 kg (165 lb)
Sport
SportSports shooting
Medal record
Representing  North Korea
Olympic Games
1972 Munich 50 m rifle prone
Ri Ho-jun
Hangul
리호준
RRRi Hojun
MRRi Hojun
For other people named Lee Ho-joon, see Lee Ho-joon (disambiguation).

Ri Ho-jun (Korean: 리호준, born 1 December 1946) is a North Korean retired sports shooter and Olympic Champion. He won a gold medal in the 50 metre rifle prone event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, the country's first ever Olympic gold medal. In August 1972 he was awarded the title of Merited Master of Sport of the USSR. He also competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics and the 1980 Summer Olympics.

Ri also taught shooting sports to North Korea's future leader, Kim Jong-il. Ri later became his closest bodyguard.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.