Sohn Kee-chung (Korean: 손기정; Korean pronunciation: [son.kidʑʌŋ]; August 29, 1912 – November 15, 2002) was a Korean-Japanese Olympic athlete and long-distance...

Japan and received higher education in Japan. Like the gold medalist Sohn Kee-chung, Nam Sung-yong used the Japanese pronunciation of his name, Nan Shōryū...

Sohn Kee-chung Park (Korean: 손기정공원; Hanja: 孫基禎公園) is a public park in Malli-dong, Jung District, Seoul, South Korea. It is named for Sohn Kee-chung, the...

resulted in a suspension until September. Ethnic Korean marathoner Sohn Kee-chung became the first Korean to win a gold medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics...

He won the race with a world best time of 2:25:39 under the coach Sohn Kee-chung, the Korean winner of the marathon at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. His...

was won by Sohn Kee-chung, a Korean athlete competing for Japan; Sohn refused to acknowledge the Japanese anthem at the victory ceremony. Sohn was the first...

compete in the Games were required to qualify for the Japanese team. Sohn Kee-chung, competing as Kitei Son, won gold in the marathon, which made him Japan's...

the lighting of the Olympic Flame with fellow South Koreans Chung Sun-Man and Sohn Kee-Chung. Kim also competed in those same games, finishing 18th in the...

two Koreans to have won the Olympic marathon. The other winner was Sohn Kee-chung. Hwang's contemporary, Lee Bong-Ju won the silver medal in the marathon...

songwriter, and producer Sohn is the surname of: Sohn Kee-chung (孫基禎) — the first medal-winning Korean Olympian Alfred Sohn-Rethel (1899–1990), German...

by the Association of Road Racing Statisticians (ARRS) Johnny Hayes Sohn Kee-chung Robert de Castella Khalid Khannouchi Kelvin Kiptum Haile Gebrselassie...

Results". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 31 January 2022. Both Sohn Kee-chung and Nam Sung-yong were from Korea. The IOC attributes both medals to...

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...

Results". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2022-01-31. Both Sohn Kee-chung and Nam Sung-yong were from Korea. The IOC attributes both medals to...

athletes to win medals did so at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, when Sohn Kee-chung and Nam Sung-yong won gold and bronze respectively in the men's marathon...

be registered for use in given names. People with this name include: Sohn Kee-chung (1914–2002), Korean Olympic marathon runner of the Japanese colonial...

Korean data, year 1971 was known as his last year, Marathon Athlete Sohn Kee-Chung also said in an interview with Dong-A Ilbo in 1976, "He has already...

526 kilometres (2,812 mi) and involved over 1,856 torchbearers. Sohn Kee-chung, Chung Sun-man and Kim Won-tak lit the cauldron at the opening ceremony...

killed in a bombing by a Korean freedom fighter, and Korean runner Sohn Kee-chung (Yoon Hee-won) wins a marathon race against Japanese competitors, further...

also is a Ferris wheel overlooking the Yalu River, reportedly broken. Sohn Kee-chung, South Korean Olympic athlete and long-distance runner Yi Sung-sun,...

retrieved 2010-04-05. International Olympic Committee results database Both Sohn Kee-chung (Son Kitei) and Nam Sung-yong (Nan Shoryu) were from Korea. The IOC...

in South Korea. Sohn Kee-chung (1912–2002), South Korean athlete and first ethnic Korean to win a medal at the Olympic Games Peter Sohn (born 1977), American...

Ilchi Lee Kevin O'Donnell Younghi Pagh-Paan (2007) Park Mok-wol (1972) Sohn Kee-chung Jarl Wahlström (1983) Chai-Shin Yu (2006) Awards and Decorations Act...

Results". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2022-01-31. Both Sohn Kee-chung and Nam Sung-yong were from Korea. The IOC attributes both medals to...

1935 during a race in which he finished second to Sohn Kee-chung (sometimes referred to as Kee-Jung Sohn or Son Kitei) who ran a 2:26:14. "World Marathon...

gift from German leader Adolf Hitler, which is now in Sohn Kee-chung Park in Seoul. However, Sohn begrudgingly competed as an athlete of the Empire of...

involved in the Sohn Kee-chung uniform scandal. During this scandal, Korean newspapers erased the Japanese flag off of images of Sohn, the first ethnic...

September 27, 2023, coinciding with Korea's Chuseok holiday. Ha Jung-woo as Sohn Kee-chung Im Si-wan as Suh Yun-bok Bae Seong-woo as Nam Sung-yong Kim Sang-ho...

cauldron where the Olympic Flame was to be lit. When Olympic Torch bearer Sohn Kee-chung approached and lit the flame, some of the doves did not leave and were...

in world record time of 3:47.8. In the marathon, the ethnic Koreans Sohn Kee-chung and Nam Sung-yong won one gold and one bronze medal; as Korea was annexed...