Om Yun-Chol

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Om Yun-Chol
Medal record
Competitor for North Korea
Men's weightlifting
Olympic Games
Gold	2012 London	56 kg

Korean name
Chosŏn'gŭl	엄윤철
McCune–Reischauer	Ŏm Yun-ch'ŏl
Revised Romanization	Eom Yun-cheol

Om Yun-Chol (born 18 November 1991 in North Hamgyong)^[1] is a weightlifter representing North Korea. He is 152 cm / 5'0" and weighs 56 kg /123 lbs.^[1] He won the gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics at the men's 56 kg event.^[1] He became only the fifth man to ever lift three times his own body weight.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Om Yun-Chol". London2012.com. Retrieved July 29, 2012.
^ http://www.london2012.com/news/articles/new-olympic-record-for.html

v t e Olympic Champions Weightlifting Bantamweight

1948–1968: –56 kg, 1972–1992: 52–56 kg, 1996: 54–59 kg, 2000-: -56 kg

1948: Joseph DePietro 1952: Ivan Udodov 1956: Charles Vinci 1960: Charles Vinci 1964: Aleksey Vakhonin 1968: Mohammad Nassiri 1972: Imre Földi 1976: Norair Nurikyan 1980: Daniel Núñez 1984: Wu Shude 1988: Oksen Mirzoyan 1992: Chun Byung-Kwan 1996: Tang Lingsheng 2000: Halil Mutlu 2004: Halil Mutlu 2008: Long Qingquan 2012: Om Yun-Chol

Persondata
Name	Yun-Chol, Om
Alternative names
Short description	weightlifter
Date of birth	18 November 1991
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

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