The Most Famous
WRESTLERS from North Korea
This page contains a list of the greatest North Korean Wrestlers. The pantheon dataset contains 700 Wrestlers, 2 of which were born in North Korea. This makes North Korea the birth place of the 46th most number of Wrestlers behind Austria and Switzerland.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary North Korean Wrestlers of all time. This list of famous North Korean Wrestlers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Kye Sun-hui (1979 - )
With an HPI of 34.36, Kye Sun-hui is the most famous North Korean Wrestler. Her biography has been translated into 22 different languages on wikipedia.
Kye Sun-hui (born 2 August 1979, in Pyongyang) is a North Korean judoka. Kye won three Olympic medals in different weight classes, in 1996, 2000 and 2004. When she won the gold medal in Atlanta, 1996 she became the youngest gold medalist in judo. She had entered the Games thanks to the wild card system, and her Olympic gold has been described as one of the biggest surprises of the Atlanta Olympics. Kye competed for a fourth time at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing but did not fare too well. Kye has been awarded the Kim Il-sung Prize and the titles of People's Athlete and Labor Hero.
2. Kim Il (1971 - )
With an HPI of 32.76, Kim Il is the 2nd most famous North Korean Wrestler. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.
Kim Il (born 25 July 1971) is a North Korean freestyle wrestler. He won two Olympic gold medals at the 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics in the light flyweight (–48 kg) category. He won silver at the 1991 World Championships. In 2006, he was inducted into the Federation Internationale de Luttes Associees Hall of Fame.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as wrestlers born between 1971 and 1979. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living wrestlers include Kye Sun-hui and Kim Il.
