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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Lee Dong-chil = Kim Won-ho (Samsung Life Insurance), one of the badminton ‘golden combinations’, was selected as the grand prize winner, the highest honor, at the 72nd Korea Sports Council Sports Awards.
The Korea Sports Council announced on the 5th that 93 people and 5 organizations were selected as winners in a total of 8 categories: competition, coaching, refereeing, daily sports, school sports, merit, research, and sports value, following deliberation by the Sports Fair Committee and resolution at the 12th board of directors meeting on the 2nd.
Won-ho Kim, who received the grand prize honor, worked with Seung-jae Seo of the same team and achieved excellent results by winning the men’s doubles title at the 2025 Paris World Badminton Championships and winning 11 gold medals in a single season on the World Tour.
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The awards ceremony will be held at the Taereung Athletes’ Village Champion House at 2 p.m. on the 13th of next month, and winners will be awarded a commendation plaque and special prizes.
The top prizes for each category were ▲ Cycling Tae-ho Choi (Gangwon Province Cycling Federation) in the competition category, Hyo-jin Ban (Daegu Physical Education High School) in shooting ▲ Weightlifting Se-won Lee, coach of Goyang City Hall in the coaching category, coach Jeong Sung-suk of Yongin University in the judo category ▲ Eun-hee Kim, standing referee of the Korean Judo Association in refereeing category ▲ Du-yeon Cha (Busan Metropolitan City Roller Sports Federation) in the daily sports category ▲ Jong-hwan Oh of Oncheon Elementary School in the school physical education category. was selected.
Also honored were ▲ Lee Chung-hwan, Vice President of the Korea Sepak Takraw Association in the Achievement Category, Kim Gwang-tae, Vice President of the Daejeon Modern Pentathlon Federation, ▲ Kim Seok-gyu, Associate Professor of Sports Science at Dongguk University in the Research Category, and ▲ Park Kang-gyu, President of the Seoul Curling Federation, in the Sports Value Category.
In addition, commendation plaques and prizes will also be awarded to winners in each category of Excellence and Encouragement Awards (21 people and 3 organizations for Excellence Awards, 60 people and 2 organizations for Encouragement Awards).
Since establishing the Sports Awards in 1955, the Sports Council has awarded awards every year to people who have demonstrated outstanding skills in various sports activities or who have contributed to the development of sports through creative and dedicated efforts.
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