Kim Ryon-mi

Kim Ryon-mi
Personal information
Full name Kim Ryon-mi
Nationality  North Korea
Born 8 February 1983
Height 1.69 m (5 ft 6 1⁄2 in)
Weight 70 kg (154 lb)
Sport
Sport Judo
Event(s) 70 kg
Korean name
Chosŏn'gŭl 김련미
Revised Romanization Gim Yeonmi
McCune–Reischauer Kim Ryŏnmi
This is a Korean name; the family name is Kim.

Kim Ryon-mi (Korean: 김련미; born February 8, 1983) is a North Korean judoka, who competed in the women's middleweight category.[1] She captured two silver medals in the 70-kg division at the Asian Judo Championships (2004 and 2005), and finished seventh at the 2004 Summer Olympics, representing her nation North Korea.[2]

Kim qualified for the North Korean squad in the women's middleweight class (70 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by placing second and receiving a berth from the Asian Championships in Almaty, Kazakhstan.[2] She easily thwarted Angola's Antonia Moreira with an earth-shattering ippon in her opening match, before succumbed to a similar tactic and an sumi gaeshi (corner reversal) hold from Australia's Catherine Arlove. In the repechage round, Kim chased Czech judoka and two-time Olympian Andrea Pažoutová with a sensational ōuchi gari (big inner reap) throw to score a waza-ari (half point) within a five-minute limit, but her rigid form was not enough to combat Belgium's Catherine Jacques in their subsequent match, relegating Kim into the seventh position.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ "Kim Ryon-mi". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Ten Best Players in 2004 Selected in DPRK". Korean Central News Agency. 10 January 2005. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
  3. ↑ "Judo: Women's Middleweight (70kg/154 lbs) Repechage Round 2". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  4. ↑ "Judistka Pažoutová skončila devátá" [Judoka Pažoutová finished ninth] (in Czech). Mladá fronta DNES. 18 August 2004. Retrieved 1 December 2014.

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