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Le'Raven Clark Colts Jersey , South Korea, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- DPR Korea will send Olympic gold medalists and world champions to the upcoming 17th Asian Games to be held in Incheon, South Korea, from Sept. 19 to Oct. 4.
According to the organizing committee for the Games, DPR Korea will send 150 athletes to compete in 14 of 36 sports, featuring Olympic champions and winners of recent world championships.
Om Yun-chol, the 2012 Olympic weightlifting gold medalist and the 2013 world champion in the men's 56kg division, will take part in the Asiad. The 152-centimeter dynamo holds the world record in clean and jerk with 169kg, which he set during the Asian Interclub Championships in Pyongyang last September.
DPR Korea has another world record holder in weightlifting with Kim Un-guk
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Rim Jong-sim, another Olympic weightlifting champion in the women's 69kg, will also be in Incheon, west of Seoul.
Ri Se-gwang is expected to duel South Korea's Yang Hak-seon for the gold medal in the men's vault in artistic gymnastics. Yang won the 2010 Asian Games gold, two years before claiming his first Olympic title, while Ri was the 2006 Asiad gold medalist.
In wrestling, Greco-Roman wrestler Yun Won-chol, the 2013 world champion in the men's 55kg class, will compete at the Incheon Asiad.
The table tennis mixed doubles duo of Kim Hyok-bong and Kim Jong won the world championship last year in Paris and will try to claim their first Asian Games gold together.
