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Ri Gwang-sik

North Korean boxer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ5778865 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ri Gwang-sik (born March 5, 1970) is a North Korean boxer who won a bronze medal in the men's bantamweight (54 kg) category at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. He also captured a bronze medal at the 1991 World Amateur Boxing Championships.

Olympic results

Defeated Laszlo Bognar (Hungary) TKO 3 (1:00)

Defeated Sergio Reyes Jr.

Editorial summary

“Ri Gwang-sik” enters the record as north Korean boxer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gwang-sik, North and Korean can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1970, 1992, 1991—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1970-03-05. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Gwang-sik, North and Korean.
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“Ri Gwang-sik” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Gwang-sik, North and Korean provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5778865. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1970, 1992 and 1991.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ri Gwang-sik” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.