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About Kim Kuk-hyang (weightlifter)
- Kim Kuk-hyang (Korean pronunciation: [kim.gu.k?ja?] or [kim] [ku.k?ja?]; born 20 April 1993) is a North Korean weightlifter who won the silver medal in the women's +75 kg weight class at the 2015 Asian Weightlifting Championships.She won the silver medal at the women's +75 kg event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.Kuk-hyang was born in Jangyon County, South Hwanghe Province, North Korea.
- She was raised by her mother and was later orphaned, to be raised by the state.
- She was noticed by weightlifting coach Kim Myong Ho at a hospital in Pyongyang when helping her mother get medical treatment; she was helping her mother up the stairs when the coach asked if she wanted to become a weightlifter.
- As her mother's health was failing, the coach would often visit her in hospital and promised to raise her daughter.
- Myong Ho was a demanding coach who also acted as her father.
- At age 16, she was injured as the first world junior weight lifting championship neared.
- After recuperating, she was looked after by national-level coaches and a medical group, who oversaw her nutrition using a scientific approach.
- She was chosen one of the top ten athletes of 2016 and was awarded the title of "Merited Athlete" in her home country.
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