calendar>>December 22. 2008 Juche 97
Youth Championship Held
Pyongyang, December 20 (KCNA) -- A youth championship took place in Pyongyang, Hamhung, Wonsan, Sariwon and other places.

Its participants competed in football, basketball, volleyball and table tennis and other events.

The players of the April 25 Sports Group came first in the men's basketball event, women's volleyball event, men's table tennis team event, men and women's field hockey event, men's and women's boxing team events and women's weightlifting team event.

Men players of the Chobyong Sports Group and women players of the Rimyongsu Sports Group placed first in the football matches while women players of the Amnokgang Sports Group won the title of the basketball event. The first place in the weight lifting team event went to men players of the above-said group and that in the table tennis team event to women players of the Sobaeksu Sports Group.

Men players of the Central Physical Training College won the title of the volleyball event and men players of the Pyongyang Railway Bureau Sports Group and women players of the Haebangsan Sports Group that in the badminton team events. Men and women players of the Jangsan Sports Group emerged winners in short-track speed skating.

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