Mr Seung Min<br>RYU

Mr Seung Min
RYU

KORKOR
Entry in the IOC

2016

Born

5 August 1982

Games Participated
Athlete Profile
Education

Bachelor of Sports Marketing and Master’s in Social Physical Education at Kyonggi University (Republic of Korea); Honorary Doctorate in Physical Education at Kyonggi University

Sports practised

Table tennis

Sports career

Olympic Games: Gold medal in 2004; silver medal in 2012; bronze medal in 2008; competed in 2000 - World Championships: Silver medal in 2006 and 2008; bronze medal in 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010 and 2012; competed in 1997, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2009 and 2011 - World Cup: Silver medal in 2007; competed in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2008.
National table tennis team member (1997-2012); national team coach (2014); Samsung table tennis team coach (2015-); played for Borussia Düsseldorf (Germany) (2000-2001), Sichuan (People's Republic of China) (2001), SVS Niederösterreich (Austria) (2005-2007), G.V. Hennebont (France) (2008-2010), TTF Ochsenhausen, (Germany) (2012-2014)

Sports administration

Member of the Athletes’ Commission of the South Korean National Olympic Committee, Mayor of the Olympic Village PyeongChang 2018; Chair of the Athletes’ Commission of the South Korean National Olympic Committee (2016-2019); Chair of the Athletes’ Entourage Commission of the OCA (2018-); President of the Korean Table Tennis Association (2019-); Executive Committee member of the International Table Tennis Federation (2019); Chair of the PyeongChang 2018 Legacy Foundation (2019-); vice-president of the Winter Youth Olympic Games Gangwon 2024 Organising Committee

IOC History

Member of the following Commissions: Athletes (2016-2021) then first vice-chair (2021-), Athletes' Entourage (2016-2018), Marketing (2016-2018), Olympic Education (2018-), Olympic Programme (2021-), Coordination of the Games of the XXXIV Olympiad Los Angeles 2028 (2019-), Sustainability and Legacy (2020-); Advisory Committee on Human Rights (2022-); member of the Board of Directors of Olympic Channel Services S.L. Spain (2023-)