The Most Famous
WRESTLERS from North Korea
This page contains a list of the greatest North Korean Wrestlers. The pantheon dataset contains 1,027 Wrestlers, 1 of which were born in North Korea. This makes North Korea the birth place of the 71st most number of Wrestlers behind Kosovo, and Ghana.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary North Korean Wrestlers of all time. This list of famous North Korean Wrestlers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Kim Il (b. 1971)
With an HPI of 45.41, Kim Il is the most famous North Korean Wrestler. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
Kim Il (born 25 July 1971) is a North Korean freestyle wrestler. He won two Olympic gold medals at the 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics in the light flyweight (–48 kg) category. He won silver at the 1991 World Championships. In 2006, he was inducted into the Federation Internationale de Luttes Associees Hall of Fame.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as North Korean wrestlers born between 1971 and 1971. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living North Korean wrestlers include Kim Il. As of April 2024, 1 new North Korean wrestlers have been added to Pantheon including Kim Il.
