Kim Song-guk

Kim Song-guk

Personal information
Nationality	North Korea
Born	(1984-04-11) April 11, 1984 (age 40) North Korea
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Sport
Sport	Boxing
Weight class	Featherweight
Medal record Olympic Games 2004 Athens Featherweight World Championships 2007 Chicago Lightweight Asian Games 2006 Doha Featherweight Asian Championships 2007 Ulan Bator Lightweight 2005 Ho Chi Minh City Featherweight

Kim Song-Guk (born April 11, 1984) is a North Korean boxer who competed in the featherweight (– 57 kg) category at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the silver medal.

Career

Southpaw Kim upset Germany's Vitali Tajbert at the Olympics 2004 but lost to Russian star Alexei Tichtchenko. He qualified for the Athens Games by topping the 1st AIBA Asian 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Guangzhou, China. In the final he defeated Thailand's Somluck Kamsing.

At the Asian Games he lost to Uzbekistan's Bahodirjon Sooltonov in the semis and won bronze.

Amateur highlights

2004 Olympic Games

• 1st round bye
• Defeated Konstantine Kupatadze (Georgia) 25-14
• Defeated Muideen Ganiyu (Nigeria) 32-11
• Defeated Vitali Tajbert (Germany) 29-24
• Lost to Alexei Tichtchenko (Russia) 17-39

2007 AIBA World Amateur Championships

• Defeated Otoneil Ortiz (Virgin Islands) RSC 2 (0:57)
• Defeated Alejandro Rodríguez (Spain) RSC 3 (1:49)
• Defeated Vazgen Safar-Yants (Belarus) 19-18
• Defeated Darley Perez (Colombia) 23-6
• Lost to Domenico Valentino (Italy) 14-22

2008 Olympic Games

• Lost to Daouda Sow (France) 3-13

References

• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Kim Song-guk". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.