Nam Sung-Yong was the bronze winner of the Marathon of the 1936 Summer Olympics

1936 Summer Olympics

The 1936 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event which was held in 1936 in Berlin, Germany. Berlin won the bid to host the Games over Barcelona, Spain on April 26, 1931, at the 29th IOC Session in Barcelona...

, completing the run in 2 hours, 31 minutes, and 42 seconds. He is also the first Korean bronze Olympian.

Nam received higher education in Japan. Like the gold medalist Sohn Kee-Chung

Sohn Kee-chung

Sohn Kee-Chung became 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....

, Nam Sung-Yong used the Japanese

Japanese language

is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...

 pronunciation of his name, Nan Shōryū.

After the Olympics, Nam Sung-Yong worked at the Korean Sporting Association with Sohn Kee-Chung.

Nam's record

• 2:32:33, 2nd at Japan Championship (November 3, 1933)
• 2:36:05, the winner at Japan's Berlin Olympics qualifying round (May 21, 1936)
• 2:31:42, bronze medal at Berlin Olympics  (August 9, 1936)
• 2:40:10, 10th at 1947 Boston Marathon
  Boston Marathon
  The Boston Marathon is an annual marathon hosted by the U.S. city of Boston, Massachusetts, on Patriots' Day, the third Monday of April. Begun in 1897 and inspired by the success of the first modern-day marathon competition in the 1896 Summer Olympics, the Boston Marathon is the world's oldest...
  
   (April 1947). At this race, Nam's compatriot Suh Yun-Bok
  Suh Yun-bok
  Suh Yun-bok is a former South Korean athlete, who is best known as the winner of the 1947 Boston Marathon. He won the race with a world best time of 2:25:39 under the coach Sohn Kee-chung, the Korean winner of the marathon at the 1936 Berlin Olympics...
  
  was the winner.

External links

Profile from the Suncheon Marathon