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DPRK Players Rank First, Second in World's Wrestling Standings
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Pyongyang, January 16 (KCNA) -- DPRK's Jong Hak Jin and Yang Kyong Il finished the 2013-2014 season rank first and second respectively in the world men's 57 kg free-style wrestling. The standings were decided by the United World Wrestling. It is the first time for wrestlers of a country to rank world's first and second in the same category. Jong Hak Jin from the April 25 Sports Team proved successful at the International Senior FS Wrestling Tournament "Takhti Cup" held in February and the 17th Asian Games in September last year. Yang Kyong Il from the Ryongnamsan Sports Team snatched a gold medal in the 2014 World Wrestling Championship by defeating Iranian rival, a world champion and Georgian opponent, an Olympic silver medalist. As a 2009 world wrestling champion, he was selected as one of the nation's best players of the years of 2009, 2011 and 2012. |
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