The Most Famous
GYMNASTS from North Korea
This page contains a list of the greatest North Korean Gymnasts. The pantheon dataset contains 370 Gymnasts, 2 of which were born in North Korea. This makes North Korea the birth place of the 38th most number of Gymnasts behind Tajikistan, and Latvia.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary North Korean Gymnasts of all time. This list of famous North Korean Gymnasts is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Ri Se-gwang (b. 1985)
With an HPI of 45.51, Ri Se-gwang is the most famous North Korean Gymnast. His biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.
Ri Se-gwang (Korean: 리세광; born January 21, 1985) is a retired North Korean artistic gymnast, representing the April 25 Sports Club. He is often considered a specialist on vault apparatus in the sport of men’s artistic gymnastics (MAG).
2. Pae Gil-su (b. 1972)
With an HPI of 38.23, Pae Gil-su is the 2nd most famous North Korean Gymnast. His biography has been translated into 14 different languages.
Pae Gil-su (Korean: 배길수, also written Pae Kil-su, born March 4, 1972) is a North Korean gymnast. He won the gold medal for the pommel horse at the 1992 Summer Olympics (tied with Vitaly Scherbo). He also won the gold medal at the 27th, 28th and 32nd World Gymnastics Championships. Pae attended Pyongyang Sinri Primary School and the Korean Physical Education College.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as North Korean gymnasts born between 1972 and 1985. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living North Korean gymnasts include Ri Se-gwang, and Pae Gil-su. As of April 2024, 1 new North Korean gymnasts have been added to Pantheon including Pae Gil-su.
