Ri Byong-uk (born November 7, 1954) is a retired North Korean boxer, who won two Olympic medals in the men's Light Flyweight (48 kg) category.

Olympic results

1976

Defeated Sidney McKnight (Canada) KO 1

Defeated Henryk Średnicki (Poland) 3-2

Defeated Armando Guevara (Venezuela) 3-2

Defeated Payao Poontarat (Thailand) RSC 2

Lost to Jorge Hernández (Cuba) 1-4

1980

Defeated Henryk Pielesiak (Poland) 3-2

Defeated Gilberto Sosa (Mexico) 3-2

Defeated Dumitru Şchiopu (Romania) 4-1

Lost to Shamil Sabirov (Soviet Union) 0-5

References

1954 births

Living people

Light-flyweight boxers

Boxers at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Boxers at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Olympic silver medalists for North Korea

Olympic bronze medalists for North Korea

Olympic boxers for North Korea

Olympic medalists in boxing

Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Boxers at the 1978 Asian Games

Asian Games silver medalists for North Korea

Asian Games medalists in boxing

North Korean male boxers

Medalists at the 1978 Asian Games

20th-century North Korean people

Ri Byong-uk