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| Nationality |  North Korea | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 December 1968 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| Chosŏn'gŭl | 리분희 |
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| Hancha | 李粉姬 |
| Revised Romanization | I Bun-hui |
| McCune–Reischauer | Ri Pun-hŭi |
Li Bun-hui (Korean: 리분희; born December 29, 1968) is a former table tennis player from North Korea who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics.[1][2]
Table tennis career
[edit]She won eight World Table Tennis Championship medals.[3] She won a bronze medal at the 1983 World Table Tennis Championships in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event).
Two years later she won a silver medal in the women's team[4] and during the 1987 World Table Tennis Championships she won a bronze in the women's doubles with Cho Jung-hui.[5]
Her next medals came in the singles at the 1989 and 1991[6] and also in 1991 she won a mixed doubles bronze with Kim Song-hui and a gold medal in the team event with Hong Cha-ok, Hyun Jung-hwa and Yu Sun-bok in a unified Korean team.[7] Her final medal was a silver in 1993 in the team event.
Personal life
[edit]She is married to Kim Song-hui, also a former table tennis player who represented North Korea, and has a son.
In popular culture
[edit]Film
[edit]The story of the Unified Korean team in the 1991 World Championships and its victory over the Chinese in the women's team event is told by the movie As One starring actress Bae Doona as Li Bun-hui.[8]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Korean women called flowers of nation". Korean Central News Agency. Pyongyang. 30 July 1998. Archived from the original on 12 October 2014. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
- ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
- ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
- ^ "List of Winners". All About Table Tennis.
- ^ "Women's doubles results" (PDF). International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-12.
- ^ "Women's singles results" (PDF). International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-12.
- ^ Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
- ^ "CJ ENTERTAINMENT Goes for the Gold with "AS ONE"". Hancinema. 24 May 2012.
External links
[edit]- Li Bun-hui at databaseOlympics.com (archived)
- Li Bun-hui at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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