calendar>>October 30. 2019 Juche 108

DPRK Championships Closes

Pyongyang, October 30 (KCNA) -- The DPRK Championships which was opened on October 1 closed with due ceremony at the Basketball Gymnasium in Chongchun Street on Wednesday.

All players and coaches gave full play to the ideological, moral, physical and technical capabilities they cultivated in the training.

Men and women players of the April 25 Sports Team, the Amnokgang Sports Team, the Pyongyang Sports Team, the Defense Sports Team of the Korean People's Army and the Amnokgang Defence Sports Team set new records of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in such events as weightlifting, shooting and athletics.

Men players of the Ryomyong Sports Team and women players of the Naegohyang Women's Football Team took the first place in the football event.

Men players of the April 25 Sports Team and women players of the Amnokgang Sports Team respectively came first in the basketball matches and men players of the Amnokgang Sports Team and women players of the Sobaeksu Sports Team came first in the volleyball matches.

Present at the closing ceremony were Choe Hwi, vice-chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the National Sports Guidance Committee, officials concerned, sportspersons and Pyongyangites.