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South Korea at the 1956 Summer Olympics

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IOC code
  
KOR

0
  
1

Competitors
  
35 in 7 sports


NOC
  
Korean Olympic Committee

Website
  
www.sports.or.kr (Korean) (English)

MedalsRanked 29th
  
GoldSilverBronzeTotal0112

South Korea, as Korea, competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. 35 competitors, all men, took part in 23 events in 7 sports.

Contents

Silver

  • Song Soon-chun — Boxing, Men's Bantamweight

    • Bronze

  • Kim Chang-Hui — Weightlifting, Men's Lightweight

    • Group round

  • China 83-76 Korea
  • Bulgaria 89-58 Korea
  • Uruguay 83-60 Korea

    • Group 2 (9-15)

  • Canada 74-63 Korea
  • Japan 83-67 Korea

    • Classification 13-15

    Thailand's loss gave the nation 15th place.

  • Korea 61-47 Thailand
  • Singapore, BYE

    • Classification 13/14

  • Singapore 92-79 Korea

    • Korea's final ranking was 14th.

    Squad

    An Yeong-Sik, An Byeong-Seok, Jo Byeong-Hyeon, Choi Tae-Gon, Kim Chun-Bae, Kim Hyeong-Il, Kim Yeong-Gi, Kim Yeong-Su, Go Se-Tae, Baek Jeong-Nam

    Shooting

    Two shooters represented South Korea in 1956.

    Men

    Weightlifting

    Men

    Wrestling

    Men's Freestyle

    References

    South Korea at the 1956 Summer Olympics Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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