Sohn Kee-chung
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title:
Sohn Kee-chung
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Sohn Kee-chung was a Korean-Japanese Olympic athlete and long-distance runner. He became the first ethnic Korean to win a medal at the Olympic Games, winning gold in the marathon at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. He was born in the Korean Peninsula, but he competed as a member of the Japanese delegation because Korea was under Japanese rule at the time. Sohn set an Olympic record of 2 hours 29 minutes 19.2 seconds. Sohn competed under the Japanese name Kitei Son, as Korea was under Japanese occupatio
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Korean marathon runner (1912–2002)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sohn_Kee-chung
date created:
2003-06-06T19:35:11Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T03:06:17Z
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