RiSuk, a People’s Athlete and two-time world champion, is a student at theweightlifting department of the combat sports faculty of Central Sports School.
Borninto an ordinary doctor’s family in Waudo District, Nampho, she was alreadygood at sports in her childhood and drew attention of instructors of varioussports for her physical constitution suitable for sports.
Shestarted weightlifting in her teens and learned the basic techniques at CentralSports School.
Afteracquiring high technical skills under the guidance of Jon Song Hui, Ri made herinternational debut at the 2018 Asian Juvenile and Junior WeightliftingChampionships, where she surprisingly won six gold medals in the snatch, jerkand total.
Later,she won three gold medals at the 2019 Asian Juvenile and Junior WeightliftingChampionships and renewed a world record in jerk and bagged three golds in the2023 IWF Grand Prix. She overcame the ever-intensifying training course with apersevering will and won three golds at the 2024 Asian WeightliftingChampionships. She renewed world records in jerk and total at the 2024 IWFWorld Championships and became a world champion.
Bearingin mind the great love and trust of the Workers’ Party which put her forward asa People’s Athlete, she set new world records with 111kg in snatch, 142kg injerk and 253kg in total and won three gold medals at the 2025 IWF WorldChampionships, thus fully demonstrating her competence as a weightlifting ace.
KimIl Gyong, a weightlifter of the April 25 Combat Sports Team, won a gold medalin the 2017 World Junior Weightlifting Championships in her teens.
Shewas born and grew up in Pyongyang and began to learn the basic techniques ofweightlifting from her childhood.
Sheis an introverted girl in daily life, but once she enters the training ground, sheturns into a fiery enthusiast struggling hard to attain the training goal witha persevering and diligent spirit.
Shewas honoured to take part in the Eighth Congress of the Korean Children’s Union(KCU) and make a speech there. She also achieved successes in the 2018 Asian Juvenileand Junior Weightlifting Championships and the 2019 Asian Juvenile and JuniorWeightlifting Championships.
Shesurprised experts and fans again by participating in the women’s weightlifting59kg event of the 19th Asian Games. Later, she retained her fame as a world-classweightlifter in subsequent international games.
Inparticular, she set new world records in jerk and total and bagged three goldmedals in the women’s 59kg category at the 2024 IWF World Championships, bygiving full play to her explosive power.
Inorder to prove herself worthy of the trust and expectations of the Party whichput her forward as a winner of the KimIl Sung Children Honour Prize and the title of People’s Athlete, she putgreater spurs to training and won three gold medals at the 2025 IWF WorldChampionships.
RiSuk and Kim Il Gyong are now devoting their patriotic efforts to training withthe determination to glorify the honour of the country by defending their titlesrecognized by the world weightlifting circles and winning gold medals ininternational games.
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