Full name Ri Hyon-ok Height 1.61 m (5 ft 3 ⁄2 in) Sport Shooting | Nationality North Korea Weight 62 kg (137 lb) Event(s) Skeet (SK75) | |
Born 13 January 1970 (age 47) ( 1970-01-13 ) Pyongyang, North Korea | ||
Ri Hyon-ok (Korean: 리현옥; born January 13, 1970 in Pyongyang) is a North Korean sport shooter. She won a bronze medal in skeet shooting at the 2007 Asian Shooting Championships in Kuwait City, Kuwait, and finished seventh at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Ri qualified as the only female athlete for the North Korean shooting squad in the women's skeet at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by having registered a minimum qualifying score of 66 and obtaining a top four finish from the Asian Championships in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Ri aggregated a total record of 68 out of 75 targets in the qualifying stage, but fell abruptly in a two-way shoot-off against U.S. shooter Kimberly Rhode by 2 to 1, leaving her in seventh out of twelve prospective shooters.