Hangul 함기용 Name Ham Kee-yong McCune–Reischauer Ham Kiyong | Revised Romanization Ham Giyong Hanja 咸基鎔 | |
Ham Kee-yong (born November 14, 1930) is a former South Korean athlete, best known as the winner of the 1950 Boston Marathon.
On April 19, 1950, he won the Boston Marathon with a record time of 2:32:39, under coach Sohn Kee-chung, the marathon winner at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The second and third-place finishers that year, Song Gil-yun (송길윤, 宋吉允; 숭문중학) and Choe Yun-chil (최윤칠, 崔崙七; 연희대학) were also South Koreans. A South Korean male would not win the Boston Marathon again until 2001.
The Korean War broke out on June 25, 1950, so a planned victory celebration did not take place that year. On April 18, 2004, his feat was finally celebrated in his hometown, with Ham in attendance.
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