title: Ri Ho-jun
text: # Ri Ho-jun
  
  Ri Ho-jun (Korean: 리호준, born 1 December 1946) was a North Korean sports shooter and Olympic Champion. He won a gold medal in the 50 metre rifle prone event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, the country's first ever Olympic gold medal. In August 1972 he was awarded the title of Merited Master of Sport of the USSR. He also competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics and the 1980 Summer Olympics.
  
  Ri also taught shooting sports to North Korea's future leader, Kim Jong-il. Ri later became his closest bodyguard.
  
  