Om Yun-Chol: a North Korean weightlifter

Om Yun-Chol is a North Korean weightlifter, Olympic Champion, and five times World Champion contending in the 56 kg category until 2018 and 55 kg beginning in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Organization redesigned the categories.

He is 152 centimeters (5 ft 0 in) and weighs 55 kilograms (121 lb). Om addresses the Amnokgang Sports Team.

He is additionally the fourth man to lift more than 3 times body weight in the clean and jerk on numerous occasions subsequent to prevailing with regards to breaking the world record quick lift of 169 kg in the −56 kg weight class during the Asian Interclub Championships, and has achieved this accomplishment 3 additional occasions since the Asian Interclub Titles, at the 2014 Asian Games, 2015 World Weightlifting Titles, and the 2016 Summer Olympics. 

He was likewise the 6th man to lift in any event triple his body weight in the clean and jerk in worldwide rivalry, having done so seven times; the others are Naim Süleymanoğlu, Stefan Topurov, Long Qingquan, Halil Mutlu, and Neno Terziyski. 

He has set six senior world records all through his vocation, five in the clean and jerk and one in the aggregate. 

He won the gold decoration at the 2012 Summer Olympics at the men's 56 kg event, establishing an Olympic Precedent in the quick lift with 168 kg, all while contending in the B meeting. He turned out to be just the fifth man to ever quick lift multiple times his own body weight.

At the men's 56 kg weightlifting occasion at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Om was a top pick to reestablish his gold from London. In the wake of breaking his own Olympic record with a lift of 169 kg, Om was outperformed by Long Qingquan and needed to agree to the silver medal.

At the 2014 Asian Matches, he dominated the gold decoration in the 56 kg, in the quick lift partition, he set another world record lift of 170 kg. His all-out of 298 kg was an Asian Record at the hour of competition.

At the following Asian Games in 2018, he was the top choice to win one more gold decoration at Games. In the wake of completing in runner up after the grab bit of the opposition, 1 kg behind Thạch Kim Tuấn, he out lifted him by 8 kg in the quick lift bit of the opposition getting his subsequent Asian Games gold medal.