Description
Sohn Kee-Chung became the first medal-winning Korean Olympian, when he won the gold medal in the marathon at the 1936 Berlin Olympics as a member of the Japanese delegation.
He competed under the Japanese name Son Kitei, as Korea was part of the Japanese Empire at the time. The name is based on the Japanese Kanji pronunciation of his Korean name.
Born
August 29th, 1914 in Sinuiju / Died: Nov 15th, 2002
Last Changes
2010/12/14
The celebrity has been marked as passed away