DPRK players won many medals in the international competitions in the first half of the year.

Women boxers bagged one gold and two bronze medals at the 2025 IBA World Women's Boxing Championships held in March in Serbia. The event drew more than 230 players from 51 countries and regions of the world.

The gold medallist was Pang Chol Mi who had been successful at several international games including the 2018 IBA World Women's Boxing Championships and the 33rd Olympic Games. She competed in the 52kg category.

The 2025 Konstantin Korotkov International Boxing Tournament took place in Russia in April.

It brought together over 140 men and women players from 16 countries and regions. The DPRK boxers won four gold medals in the women’s 50kg, 54kg, 57kg and 66kg categories, one silver in the men’s 48kg event and three bronzes in the women’s 60kg and men’s 51kg and 60kg categories.

The DPRK weightlifters shook the international weightlifting circles again.

Four men and women weightlifters obtained nine gold and three silver medals in the 2025 Asian Weightlifting Championships held in China in May.

Particularly, Song Kuk Hyang set new world and Asian records and won first place in jerk and total respectively and came second in snatch in the women's 71kg category. She was awarded the MVP award of the championships.

DPRK weightlifters also won three gold medals in the junior women's 81kg category and a silver medal in snatch of the junior men's 61kg category at the 2025 IWF World Youth and Junior Championships.

Wrestlers won 13 medals including four golds at the 2025 Asian Wrestling Championship.

More than 360 male and female wrestlers from over 20 countries and regions took part in the championship held in March and competed in 10 categories of Greco-Roman, freestyle and women’s wrestling events.

DPRK wrestlers won gold medals in the 60kg category of Greco-Roman wrestling, the 53kg and 55kg categories of women’s wrestling and the 57kg category of freestyle wrestling. They finished runners-up in the 57kg, 59kg, 62kg and 68kg categories of women’s wrestling and came third in the 55kg, 63kg and 67kg categories of Greco-Roman wrestling, the 50kg category of women’s wrestling and the 65kg category of freestyle wrestling.

At the 2025 U-17, U-23 Asian Wrestling Championships they received gold medals in the U-23 freestyle wrestling 57kg category and women’s wrestling 53 and 57 kg categories.

DPRK athletes also earned gold medals in several international games.

They won a gold medal at the 20th Asian Marathon Championships held in March.

In the men’s marathon Han Il Ryong renewed the record of the championships established in 2004 by clocking 2 hours, 11 minutes and 18 seconds which reduced the previous time by 14 seconds.

They won the male, female and half marathon events of the 31st Pyongyang International Marathon in April.

They also obtained gold medals in the men's and women's 5 000m races respectively and silver medals in the women’s 5 000m and 1 500m races at the Chinese Taipei Athletics Open 2025 held in June.

DPRK shooters collected five medals including three golds at the Asian Rifle/Pistol Cup 2025.

The tournament, held in Thailand in February, brought together more than 300 men and women players from over 20 countries and regions. DPRK players took first place in the men's 10m air pistol shooting team event by scoring 1 741 points and won gold medals in the men’s 10m air pistol and the junior mixed team 10m air pistol shooting events respectively.

DPRK artistic gymnasts finished runners-up in the women's vaulting horse and balance beam and came third in the women's floor exercise at the 2025 FIG Artistic Gymnastics Apparatuses World Cup.

Judoists were placed third in the women's 48kg, 63kg and 70kg categories of the 2025 Asian Judo Championships and skaters took the second place at the pair skating of the Ninth Winter Asian Games held in China.