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Kim Sung-jip

Medal record
Men's weightlifting
Representing  South Korea
Olympic Games
	1948 London	Middleweight
	1952 Helsinki	Middleweight
World Championships
	1947 Philadelphia	Middleweight
Asian Games
	1954 Manila	Light heavyweight

Kim Sung-jip (13 January 1919 – 20 February 2016) was a weightlifter from South Korea. He competed for South Korea in the 1948 Summer Olympics held in London in the flyweight event where he finished in third place. Also, he competed for South Korea in the 1952 Summer Olympics, 1956 Summer Olympics where he finished in third and fifth respectively. Kim was the first person to have won the same medal at two successive Summer Olympics for South Korea.

References

1. "S. Korea's first Olympic medalist dies". Yonhap News Agency. 20 February 2016. Retrieved 27 September 2019.

External links

• Kim Sung-jip at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)

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