Li Gwang-Sik
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Li Gwang-Sik (born March 5, 1970) is a North Korean boxer, who won a bronze medal in the men's bantamweight (54 kg) category at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. He also captured a bronze medal as a flyweight at the 1989 and as a bantamweight at the 1991 World Amateur Boxing Championships. He would have been a medal favorite at the 1988 Olympics but missed out due to the North Korean boycott.
Olympic results
- Defeated Laszlo Bognar (Hungary) RSC 3 (1:00)
- Defeated Sergio Reyes (United States) 15-8
- Defeated Serafim Todorov (Bulgaria) 16-15
- Lost to Wayne McCullough (Ireland) 16-21
World amateur championships results
1989 (as a flyweight) in Moscow
- Defeated Isidro Vicera (Philippines) 45-27
- Defeated John Lyon (England) 28-15
- Lost to Yuri Arbachakov (Soviet Union) 16-20
1991 (as a bantamweight) in Sydney
- Defeated Miguel Dias (Netherlands) DQ 3
- Defeated Slimane Zengli (Algeria) 26-18
- Defeated Dugarbaatar Lhagwa (Mongolia) 38-27
- Lost to Enrique Carrion (Cuba) 11-25