Ryu Seung-min

Ryu Seung-min is a South Korean table tennis player, born on 5 August 1982, who won the gold medal in the men's singles competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics. His opponent in the final was Wang Hao, a top-seeded player from the Chinese national team, and along the way he defeated 1992 Olympic champion Jan-Ove Waldner 4-1. At the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics he was part of the South Korean team that won the bronze and silver medals respectively. In 2016 Ryu became a member of the International Olympic Committee, and he was a member and chair of the Athletes' Commission of the South Korean National Olympic Committee from 2016 to 2019.