일장기를 우러러 보지 않았던 1위와 3위, 1936년 베를린 올림픽 마라톤 현장 동영상

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1936년 독일 올림픽 마라톤 현장 동영상

 

 

 

 

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Kee-Chung Sohn(Korean; 손기정, August 29, 1912 -- November 15, 2002) is the first medal-winning Korean Olympian when he won the gold medal in the Marathon at the 1936 Berlin Olympics as a member of the Japanese delegation, under the name of Kitei Son, which is the Japanese pronunciation of the hanja(Chinese Character) making up his name.

Born in Siniju, North Pyongan Province, Sohn was educated at Yangjeong High School (양정고등학교) and Meiji University in Japan, from which he graduated in 1940.

 

Between 1933 and 1936, he ran 13 marathons and won 10 of them. He set the World Best time of 2:26:42 on November 3, 1935, which lasted about 10 years until his trainee Yun-Bok Suh won the 1947 Boston marathon with a new world record. His personal best was even better, 2:25:14 on a course 520 m longer than the standard one (equivalent to 2:23:28 for 42.195 km), and 2:24:51 on a probably short course. He participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics as a marathon runner who finished 42.195 kilometres in 2:29:19.2. He broke the olympic best and received the gold medal, with his Korean teammate Sung-Yong Nam finishing third to win the bronze.

At the time of the Berlin Olympics in 1936, Korea was occupied by Japan as its de facto colony. Sohn was forced to compete for the Japanese team using the adopted Japanese name of Kitei Son, the Japanese pronunciation of the hanja (Chinese Character) making up his name. As a nationalist, Sohn refused to sign his name in Japanese and signed only his Korean name, and even sketched the shape of Korea beside his signatures. When interviewers asked him about his country, he would clarify that Korea was his mother country. At the medal ceremony, Sohn was overcome with emotion and shed tears to see the flag of Japan raised and the Japanese national anthem played. Japan was officially credited with Sohn's gold and Nam's bronze in its 1936 Summer Olympics medal count.

Three days later after the Marathon race, one of Korea's domestic newspapers, Dong-a Ilbo, published a photograph of Sohn at the medal ceremony, but had altered the image to remove the Japanese flag from Sohn's uniform. This act so enraged the Japanese regime that it imprisoned eight persons connected with the newspaper and suspended the publication's operations for nine months.

 

Sohn spent the remainder of his career coaching other notable runners such as:

#Yun-Bok Suh, the winner of the Boston Marathon in 1947, who broke his world record with a time of 2:25:39.

#Kee-Yong Hahm, winner of the Boston Marathon in 1950

#Young-Cho Hwang, who was the gold medalist of the 1992 Barcelona Olympics marathon.

At the 1988 Summer Olympics in his home country of South Korea, he was given the honor of carrying the Olympic torch into the stadium at the opening ceremony.

He authored an autobiography entitled My Motherland and Marathon (나의조국과 마라톤). He was honoured with the Order of Civil Merit (Korean:국민훈장) and posthumously, Grand Cordon (Blue Dragon) of the Order of Sporting Merit.

Sohn died at the age of 90 at midnight on November 15, 2002 from pneumonia, and was buried at the Daejeon National Cemetery. Afterwards, the Ki-Jung Sohn Memorial Park was established.

This Clip was from the 1938 (Nazi Propaganda) Documentary film of Leni Riefenstahl, 'Olympia'. In 1956, Riefenstahl re-edited the footage of Sohn, and sent it to Sohn as a souvenir. Sorry for the low quality as I filmed this with my Digital Camera at his memorial Exhibition in 2002.