CAMBODIA: GANEFO GAMES -- NORTH KOREA WINS 800 METRE AND 1,500 METRE EVENTS

Record ID: 496382

  • Title: CAMBODIA: GANEFO GAMES -- NORTH KOREA WINS 800 METRE AND 1,500 METRE EVENTS
  • Date: 4th December 1966
  • Summary: 800 METRE AND 1,500 METRE EVENTS. Initials JRG/V/BH/GLH Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 19th December 1966 12:00
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  • Location: PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA
  • Country: Cambodia
  • Reuters ID: LVA7GFI8US77KI09H3US58FDUY1V
  • Story Text: SEVERAL WORLD RECORDS WERE CLAIMED TO HAVE BEEN SET UP AT THE FIRST ASIAN GAMES OF THE NEW EMERGING FORCES (GANEFO), HELD IN PHNOM PENH, THE CAMBODIAN CAPITAL. SEVENTEEN NATIONS ARE COMPETING.

    THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA AND NORTH KOREA ARE LEADING IN MOST OF THE 21 EVENTS. THE FINAL OF THE WOMEN'S 800-METRE EVENT WAS WON BY NORTH KOREA'S SIN KEUM DAN, WHO CLOCKED 2 MINS 3.7 SECS.

    THIS WAS THE EVENT IN WHICH SHE PROMISED TO SET A WORLD RECORD BUT FATIGUE SHOWED UP AFTER RUNNING THE 200 METRES HALF-AN-HOUR EARLIER.

    SECOND AND THIRD PLACING WENT TO SONG YUEN HONG OF CHINA AND KIM KUM OF CAMBODIA, RESPECTIVELY THE MEN'S 1,500 METRE FINAL WAS WON BY KANG KYEUN MAN, OR NORTH KOREA, HIS TIME: 3 MINS 52 SECS. CHINA TOOK SECOND AND THIRD POSITIONS. KYEUN MAN TOOK AN EARLY LEAD AND AT THE FINISH WAS WELL OVER 70 YARDS IN FRONT OF THE RUNNER UP, HAN YUEN NIEN.
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