Seoul, Korea, April 24, 2024: Former Korean weightlifter Jeon Sang-guen will receive his belated 2012 London Olympic bronze medal this summer following the disqualification of a Russian athlete for a doping violation, the sport's national governing body announced in Seoul this week.
The Korea Weightlifting Federation (KWF) said Jeon would be awarded his 2012 medal in the men's +105 kilograms event on August 9 in Paris during the Olympic Games, Yonhap News reports.
Jeon originally finished in fourth place with a total of 436 kilograms. Ruslan Albegov of Russia had taken the bronze medal at 448 kilograms.
However, Albegov was stripped of that medal in March this year due to doping, with the International Olympic Committee's Executive Board approving the reallocation of the medal that same month.
The KWF said this week that reallocation plans had been finalised and that Jeon, now 43 and retired from weightlifting, would be honoured 12 years after the event.