The Most Famous

GYMNASTS from North Korea

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This page contains a list of the greatest North Korean Gymnasts. The pantheon dataset contains 370 Gymnasts, 1 of which were born in North Korea. This makes North Korea the birth place of the 36th most number of Gymnasts behind Belgium, and Moldova.

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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.

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1. Ri Se-gwang (b. 1985)

With an HPI of 28.95, 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).

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as North Korean gymnasts born between 1985 and 1985. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living North Korean gymnasts include Ri Se-gwang.

Living North Korean Gymnasts

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