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Mangyongdae Prize Sports Games Close
Pyongyang, April 30 (KCNA) -- The Mangyongdae Prize Sports Games for celebrating the birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung (the Day of the Sun) closed with due ceremony at the Basketball Gymnasium in Chongchun Street on Tuesday.

Men and women players of the April 25 Sports Team, the Amnokgang Sports Team, the Pyongyang Sports Team, the Kigwancha Sports Team, the sports team of the February 8 Vinalon Complex, the Defense Sports Team of the Korean People's Army and the Amnokgang Defence Sports Team set new records of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in such events as weightlifting, shooting, swimming and track-and-field.

Men players of the Kigwancha Sports Team and women players of the April 25 Sports Team Sports Team separately took the first place in the football event.

Present at the closing ceremony were Choe Hwi, vice-chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the National Sports Guidance Committee, Jon Kwang Ho, vice-premier of the Cabinet, Kim Sung Du, chairman of the Education Commission, officials concerned, sportspersons and Pyongyangites.

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