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Distance running in Korea got a big boost back in 1936 when Kitei Son, listed as a Japanese, set an Olympic marathon record. After the war and Korea's liberation, he adopted the Korean version of his name, Kee Chung Sohn, and became a national hero. Since then, with Kee doing much of the coaching, South Korea has turned out some remarkably durable runners. In 1947, with passage money partly contributed by U.S. servicemen stationed there, Korea sent young Yun Bok Suh to the Boston marathon. He set a course record...
This year Coach Kee took three new finds to Boston: National Champion Yun Chil Choi, 21, who is a freshman at Korea Christian College, and two high-school students, Kil Yoon Song, 21, and Kee Yong Ham, 19. Their 7,000-mile plane trip was financed by the Korean government and popular national subscription. Their 26-mile trip over the marathon route was fueled by Korean kimchi, a mixture of garlic and onions, hot peppers and chopped cabbage...
...wave of applause was rolling slowly up the hillside with Kee Young Ham. Compact, muscular, dead-pan, he ran easily in his white trunks and jersey, staring in front of him, apparently ignoring the shouted messages from the sedan. He was gone as quickly and unobtrusively as he had come. The boys with the water followed, and craning our necks we could see the Korean dousing his head. After he had passed, everything was exactly as it had been a moment before, and it seemed much too long before the second runner, Yun Chil Choi, slipped by in another formal...
...Kee Yong Ham of Korea won the annual BAA marathon yesterday in 2:32:39; John Lafferty was the first American, at 2:39:52; and David L. Smith '51 was the first Harvard finisher, somewhere around 4:20. Smith was 71st...
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