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Sohn Kee-chung

South Korean marathon runner (1912–2002)

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Lived 1912–2002, aged 90South Korea
South KoreaSouth KoreaAthletesAthlete
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    1912–2002
    Aged 90
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Updated 2026-06-18

Sohn Kee-chung was a Korean Olympic athlete and long-distance runner. He became the first Korean to win a medal at the Olympic Games, winning gold in the marathon at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. He was born in the Korean Peninsula, but he was forced to compete as a member of the Japanese delegation because Korea was under Japanese rule at the time. Sohn set an Olympic record of 2 hours 29 minutes 19.2 seconds.

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